With the Autodesk Content Catalog is there a way to have a Beat go through and extract structured metadata at scale from Revit families + type catalogs (lookup tables)? This would be something very interesting to us. We would be able to check the values in families to our other systems and active projects to make sure everything has been updated as needed. Looking to catch issues before they are issues.
Hello Gilly,
We don’t currently have this on our roadmap, but it’s worth looking into!
Revit-event logs information when a family is opened or loaded into a Revit, file.
When action.name is one of “New Family” or “Existing Family”, the document that is ingested includes fields related to the family.
Families loaded from Content Catalog tend to have a specific folder structure. They have thee nested folders with a GUID for names, such as:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp\b7e14c9a-2f83-4d71-9ce5-18f2a6d4b903\9d3f6a21-c8b5-47e2-a1f4-7be93c50d6aa\3af82d67-1e49-4cb8-bf30-52d8e1a974fc\FAMILY NAME.rfa
To filter for families loaded from Content Catalogue, use the following query:
family.file.path : *\\Temp\\*-*-*-*-*\\*-*-*-*-*\\*-*-*-*-* AND NOT family.file.path : *Unifi*
We exclude *Unifi* from the search because they use a similar folder structure.
Our Load Location for Families dashboard (as of Bimbeats 2.1.0.0) includes this filter.