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Revanalyticx-FC User guide — Model-in-Place to proper families
Turn the Model-in-Place elements in your project into real, loadable families that still open with Edit Family — placed exactly where the originals stood. This guide shows every button on the Revanalyticx-FC tab in plain words: what it is for, how to use it, and what is good to know.
- 8features explained
- 4ways to choose what to convert
- 1Ctrl+Z to undo a whole run
Get set up
Three steps and you are ready. FC has its own tab and installs beside Revanalyticx 4.1 without touching it.
Install
Close Revit and run Revanalyticx-FC.exe, the installer we send you.
Say yes to Revit
Start Revit and choose Always Load when it asks. A Revanalyticx-FC tab appears on the ribbon.
Activate
Click License at the right-hand end of the tab, paste your key and activate.
- Revit
- 2022 – 2026
- Windows
- 10 or 11, 64-bit
- Works on
- Any project with Model-in-Place
Find your Model-in-Place elements
See how many in-place elements the project has, and in which categories — before you change anything.
Find In-Place — Clinic_Extension.rvt
How to use it
- Open the view you want to look at.
- Click Find In-Place on the Model-in-Place panel.
- Every Model-in-Place in the view is selected, and a summary shows how many there are per category — here and in the whole project.
- Keep the selection and go straight on to Convert to Family.
Convert to Family
Turn the selected Model-in-Place elements into proper, loadable families — each one rebuilt from its own sketches and put back exactly where it stood.
Revanalyticx-FC - Model-in-Place to Family Converter
How to use it
- Select one or more Model-in-Place elements (or use Find In-Place).
- Click Convert to Family. Under Conversion Mode, Selected Model-in-Place element(s) is already chosen.
- Choose the Family Category and type a Family Name — or tick Keep each Model-in-Place's own name.
- Pick the materials: Keep Existing Materials, Assign One Material or Material Mapping.
- Click Preview to check the summary, then Convert.
Convert Similar
Convert every identical copy in one go — and give them one shared family instead of dozens.
Convert Similar — 6 identical, 1 mirrored
How to use it
- Select one Model-in-Place.
- Click Convert Similar. FC finds every identical copy in the project — same shape, materials and category, moved or rotated.
- Check the count in the preview, then Convert.
- Every copy becomes an instance of the same family, turned to match where it was.
Convert All
Clean up a whole project — or one category — in a single run, with progress you can watch.
Converting Model-in-Place Elements
How to use it
- Click Convert All.
- Choose the whole project, or limit it to one category.
- The dialog shows how many can be converted, how many need a warning, and which cannot — and why.
- Click Convert and watch the progress: Converted, Remaining, Failed.
Read the report
See what happened to every element — and what to do about anything that was not converted.
Revanalyticx-FC - Conversion Report
How to use it
- The report opens at the end of every run. Closed it? Click Last Report.
- Each row shows the element, the family it became, and the reason and suggested action for anything that was not converted.
- Select Converted selects the new families in the model.
- Export... saves the report as CSV or HTML to share.
Changed your mind?
Every conversion is checked before the original is removed, and the whole run comes back with one undo.
- Buildthe family from the original's own forms
- Loadit into the project
- Placeat the same position, height and angle
- Checkposition, size and volume against the original
- Replaceonly then is the original removed
How to use it
- If any check fails, that element is rolled back and the original stays exactly as it was. The report says why.
- Not happy with a run? Press Ctrl+Z once — the whole run is a single undo step.
- Joins and cuts with neighbouring elements are put back the same way round.
Options, licence and help
Where things are saved, your licence, and how to reach us.
How to use it
- Options — the folder for the saved family copies (.rfa) and reports, and whether a report is saved after every run.
- License — enter or replace your activation key and see its status.
- Help lists every button; User Guide opens this page.
- Feedback opens an email to us with your version and Revit release filled in; About shows the version and licence.
Quick answers
Can Revit convert a Model-in-Place element into a loadable family?
Not by itself: Revit has no command for it, and its API will not open an in-place family for editing. Revanalyticx-FC does it for you. It reads every form inside the in-place family, rebuilds each one in a real family document, loads the family back into the project and places it exactly where the original stood.
Can I still edit the family afterwards?
Yes. Extrusions, blends, revolutions, sweeps, swept blends and voids are rebuilt from their own sketches, so Edit Family, Edit Extrusion and Edit Sweep open the original sketch. A form that cannot be reproduced exactly is rebuilt from its exact geometry instead, and the report says which and why.
Does the new family stay in exactly the same place?
Yes. The instance is placed at the original's position, elevation, rotation and level, joined and cut with its neighbours the same way round, and checked against the original's transform, bounding box, centroid and volume before the original is removed. On Autodesk's sample projects the measured offset is zero.
What happens to materials, parameters and the category?
You choose the category. Materials can be kept (painted faces included), replaced with one material, or mapped, and each becomes a family Material parameter you can change later. Mark, Comments, phases, level and your project parameters are carried across; anything that cannot be is listed in the report.
What about identical copies of the same element?
Convert Similar finds every identical Model-in-Place in the project, moved or rotated, with the same shape, materials and category, and gives them one shared family. A test with 100 copies produced one family. Mirrored copies deliberately get a family of their own.
What if a conversion fails, or I change my mind?
Each element is converted in its own transaction: if any check fails it is rolled back and the original is left untouched. The whole run is a single undo step, so one Ctrl+Z puts everything back.
Which Revit versions does it support, and does it work alongside Revanalyticx 4.1?
Revit 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 on Windows 10 and 11. It has its own ribbon tab, installer and licence, so it installs and updates independently of Revanalyticx 4.1 and 5.1.
Ask a person, not a manual.
The team that built Revanalyticx-FC answers questions directly — usually within a working day (Mon – Sat, 9:00 – 19:00 IST). Use Feedback on the tab and your version and Revit release are filled in for you.