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insert it, it will be appended to a wall. Hosted families carry a file extension of
.rfa. To insert a hosted family into a model, follow these steps:
1. Open the
NER.rvt file or your own file.
2. Go to Level 1.
3. On the Home tab, select the Door button.
4. On the Place Door tab, click the Load family button, as shown in
Figure 1.53.
FIGURE 1.53: You can load an RFA file during the placement of a
hosted family.
5. Browse to the Doors directory.
(Note that if you are on a network, your directories may not be the
same as in this book. Contact your CAD/BIM manager (or whoever
loaded Revit on your computer) to find exactly where they may have
mapped Revit.
6. Notice there is a list of doors. Select Single-Raised Panel with
Sidelights.rfa, and click Open.
7. On the Place Door tab, click the Change Element Type menu, as shown
in Figure 1.54. Notice that not only did you bring in the raised panel
door family, but you also have seven different types of the same door.
These types are simply variations of the same door. You no longer
have to explode a “block” and modify it to fit in your wall.
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