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Transferring Project Standards

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    1. 1. To update project standards

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    Copy project standards from one project and apply them to another project.

    Project standards include the following:

    • Family types (including system families, but not loaded families)
    • Line weights, materials, view templates, and object styles
    • Mechanical settings and electrical settings
    • Annotation styles, color fill schemes, and fill patterns
    • Print settings

    You can specify which standards to copy. Any object referenced by an object that will be copied is included in the transfer. For example, if you select a wall type and forget to copy the material, Revit copies it.

    To transfer project standards

    1. Open both the source and target projects.
    2. In the target project, click Manage tabSettings panelTransfer Project Standards.
    3. In the Select Items to Copy dialog, select the source project for Copy from.
    4. Select the desired project standards. To select all project standards, click Check All.
    5. Click OK.
    6. If the Duplicate Types dialog opens, select from the following options:
      • Overwrite: Transfers all new project standards, and overrides duplicate types.
      • New Only: Transfers all new project standards, and ignores duplicate types.
      • Cancel: Cancels the operation.

    To update project standards

    When using transfer project standard to update the standards in an existing project which is in use, it is sometimes preferable to rename the existing elements you wish to update before transfering. This is especially true for Text Styles, Dimensions Styles and Line Styles. The reason for this is that inside Revit these elements can be very difficult (sometimes impossible) to switch out with the new types. Some add-ins can help resolve this but if dimensions have been used in sketch mode or there are unused groups containing old line styles you will find that the select all in entire project tool will not see those elements.

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