Creating custom family templates

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So let's now look at creating our own family templates.

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If we go back to the file ribbon

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and we hover over new and select family

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back in the new family dialog box here,

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I'm just gonna go ahead and select generic model.

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Notice here, we have selected an RFT file. This is a rev

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family template file.

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If I select open

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this file will open up.

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Now here I could add in some additional parameters,

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reference planes and some geometry and set this up for a specific task.

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Once I've done that I want to save this and then create my own

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family template.

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So to do this, we would select the standard save command.

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And of course here this file will now be saved directly as a R FA file.

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So here, what I'm going to do is save this. So I'm just going to call this test.

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You'll notice again as I've said, this is going to be saved as an R FA file.

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I'll click save,

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we can then close down our family. So I'll select file

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and close

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and in Windows explorer, you'll now notice that we have our new family test dot R fa

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I'm going to rename this and I'm going to change the extension

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to RFT

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Windows will warn us that we are changing a five extension.

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We'll say yes here.

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And you can now see that REV family template has been created.

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We can then store that in our own folder or the default folder where the

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family files are stored.

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Let's take a look at where these default family templates are located

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in rev it, go ahead and select the file ribbon

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and then select options

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in the options, dialog, select file locations

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and you'll note here that we have the default path for family template files.

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Of course, here, we could just select that path and copy that

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and then post that into windows explorer to see those

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files or we can browse to select a new one.