Add content to collections from the Kinship website or from Revit using the Kinship add-in.

Adding Content from the Website

Use the website to add content from an existing source in your Kinship team, such as your library, tracked models, or even other collections.

When you add content from an existing source, you create a new copy of that content within the collection. If you later modify the original source content, this will NOT modify the content within the collection.

1. Click on the collection to view its Contents page.
2. Click on Add content… at the top of list of families. (Note: You must view the list in Basic or Detailed format in order to see the Add content… button.)
3. A menu will appear with options for Library, Models, Projects and Collections.

• Clicking on Library will take you to a list of your library families.
• Clicking on the other sources will take you to a list of available models, projects or collections. Click on any model, project or collection to see its list of families.

4. Click on a family to toggle selection on and off. Multiple families can be selected from one or multiple sources.
5. When you’ve finished selecting all of the content you wish to add, click Done to add the selected content to the collection and return to the collection’s Contents page. (Note: If one or more of the selected families are an exact duplicate of an existing family in the collection, a screen will appear asking you to confirm your desired action.)

• Select Skip to avoid re-adding the duplicate content to the collection.
• Select Overwrite to replace the existing family with the new one.
• Select Duplicate to create another copy of the family. Duplicate families will appear with a number in brackets after the name.
• Note: If there are multiple duplicates found, the selected action will be applied to all of them.

Adding Content from Revit

Use the Kinship add-in to add content to a collection from a network or local drive or from a model you have open in Revit.

1. Click on the Add-Ins tab in Revit.

2. In the Kinship add-in panel, click on the Add to Collection dropdown menu. 

3. You can choose from the following options:

   • Current Selection - Any families you’ve selected in your active view or from the Revit project browser. If nothing is selected, this option will be greyed out. Note: To add a model or detail group, use this option and ensure that the group is the currently selected element in Revit.
   • Current Model’s Families - All families in the model that is currently open in your active window. If no model is open in your active window, this option will be greyed out.
   • Files - One or more .RFAs selected from your file system.
   • Folder - All families from a folder selected from your file system. This option will also upload families from any sub-folders within the selected folder. Non-family files (those not ending in .rfa) will be ignored.
   • FE Family - A family that you have open in the family editor. This option only appears when the family editor is your active window.
   • Active View - A drafting view or sheet that you have open. This option only appears when a drafting view or sheet is your active window.

4. A dialog will appear for selecting the collection that you want to add the content to.

   • If you’ve already uploaded content to a collection in your current Revit session, the dialog will pre-populate with the previously selected collection. To see other available collections, clear the text that shows under Please select the collection for this family.)
   • If uploading an individual family, the dialog will include options to edit the family name or add a comment before uploading.

5. Click Upload at the bottom of the dialog to begin uploading the content to your selected collection.

   • A progress bar will appear showing the number of items remaining to be uploaded. Depending on the number of families being added, the upload process may take some time.
   • If you don’t want to wait for the upload to finish, you can click the Sync Later button and the upload will resume in the background the next time your computer is idle. 
   • You can check the upload progress at any time by hovering your mouse over the Kinship icon in the Windows system tray.