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Convert a hosted family to face-based or non-hosted family

Convert a hosted family to face-based or non-hosted family

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Convert a hosted family to face-based or non-hosted family

- [Instructor] If you've ever built Revit family content, then you probably know how important it is to choose your family hosting carefully. Because of all the things that we can change after we start building the family, changing its hosting behavior is not allowed. Or is it? It turns out that if you start building a family as a hosted family, let's say a wall-hosted family or a ceiling-hosted family, and then you later change your mind for whatever reason, instead of having to start completely over again, it turns out there's a little trick that we can employ to actually convert the family from wall-hosted to either face-based or even non-hosted. So I'm going to walk you through the process here in this video. Now, it's a bit of a workaround, and there's a lot of steps. So it may not be the most ideal process. But, given the alternative of having to scrap your family and completely start over again, it's definitely worthy of some consideration. All right, so, to get started, I've…

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