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BIMComponentDescription.RevitFamilyCategory Property

Parent Object: BIMComponentDescription

Description

Read-write property that gets and sets the Revit family category Id.

Remarks

A Revit family category is identified by a category ID. The list of available categories is defined in the folder: Bin\BIM Content Design Data\Support\AuthoringTemplates\en-US.

An example of a valid Revit family category Id is “-2006138”, which specifies the “Bearings” category. The FileManager.GetRevitFamilyCategoryIds method can be used to get all the valid Revit Family Category Ids.

Syntax

BIMComponentDescription.RevitFamilyCategory() As Long

Property Value

This is a read/write property whose value is a Long.

Version

Introduced in version 2026

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