Use the Load Autodesk Family tool to search for and load content into your model.
The Load Autodesk Family dialog searches online resources for default content.
To load families with Load Autodesk Family.
- Click Insert tab
Load from Library panel
Load Autodesk Family.
- Optional: Set the Locale Settings
for your search. You can search for content from different localized repositories.
- Enter a search term into the search bar. Content name and path are both used to resolve search. For example a search for "door" would locate all content with "door" in the name as well as content in a path containing "door".
- Further refine the search selecting the category. Or use Browse to further refine the search by a node or sub-node in the repository.
- Preview the search results.
- Toggle a list view
and icon view
with the control at the top of the dialog.
- Show additional results of the search by scrolling to the bottom of the search results window. Additional results are loaded on demand as you scroll to the bottom of the list.
- Toggle a list view
- Select the piece of content you want to load.
- Click Load.
The selected family is now available to place in the project. It displays in the appropriate category under Families in the Project Browser. For information on placing families in the project see Use Familes in the Project.