Export families to ATH

Exports the selected families in the Interchange ATH format.

When you execute the command, the following dialog box is started:

Dialog box Export ATH families

 

Using tick boxes in the tree structure, you can select the families which you want to export. By clicking on + or - you open or close the corresponding branch. Selecting the superordinate element selects in each case all superordinate elements.

Show only families used
With this tick box you can choose whether only the families and variants actually used in the respective model are displayed or all those available in the Revit file after all. By default, only those actually used are displayed.

Destination folder
Click the button Destination Folder to specify the storage location of the drawings (*.ATH).

Export
When you click the Export button, the dialog box is terminated and the export process is started:

 

Once the selected families have been exported to the specified folder, the report is shown in a dialog box:

 

Export result:

The program has generated a subfolder with the name of the Revit project in the specified destination folder and saved each family in it as a separate ATH drawing (Familyname.ath). In addition, for every drawing an XML file (Family_name.xml) is saved, which contains the type parameters of the Revit family. Information on the structure of the XML data can be found in the section XML-Parameter.

The drawings can now be imported and edited with ATHENA. To import them again so that the families can be updated, they must be saved with an index (Familyname_a.ath, Familyname_b.ath, ...). The XML files no longer need to be edited manually, this is done in the export dialog in ATHENA

 

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