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Working with In-place Component Families
In-Place component families are a special type of component family unique to
the current project. They are created in the project environment vs. the Family
Editor, so project geometry can be used as a reference. They do not exist out-
side of the current project. The command is located on the Architecture tab's
Component drop-down; it's called Model In-Place.
The major difference between in-place component families and component
families is in regard to multiple instances. When component families have
multiple instances in the project, updating the family geometry will update all
instances. In-Place component families do not support multiple instances of
the same family. For this reason, they should be used only for unique geometry
since a copy of an in-place component has no relationship to the original (and
will not update with changes to the original instance).
In the following exercise you will modify an existing in-place family.
exercise 5.7: Modify an In-place Family
To begin, go to the topic's web page at www.sybex.com/go/
revit2015essentials , download the files for Chapter 5, and open the file
c05-ex-5.7start.rvt .
1. Open the project to the default 3D view.
2. Select the countertop extrusion, and choose Edit In-Place on the rib-
bon to edit the Casework family (Figure 5.14).
FIgUre 5.14 Edit Casework in-place family
 
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