Open content from collections using the Kinship add-in or using the Load button on the website.

From the website using the Load button

1. Go to the collection’s Contents page.

2. Click on the blue Load button to the far right of the family you would like to open. Note: You must have a compatible version of Revit (same version as the family or higher) installed in order for the Load button to be clickable. If no compatible version of Revit is found, the button will be greyed out.
3. Clicking the Load button will download the family and open it.

• If no model is open, the family will be opened in the family editor.
• If a model is open, the family will be loaded in the model but not selected. You can then search for the family from the add-in to select it.

From the Add-in

1. To find a family in a collection from the add-in, see searching Kinship from Revit.
2. Select the family from the add-in search results to download it.
3. The action taken after the family is downloaded will depend on your currently active window.

• If your active window is a model, then the family will be loaded into the model and become the currently selected family so that you can immediately place it.
  • If the family already exists in the model you will be prompted as to whether to overwrite the existing version but keeps its parameter values or overwrite the parameter values as well or to cancel.
• If your active window is the family editor or you have nothing open, then the family will be saved to your local drive and then opened in the family editor.
  • By default, Kinship will save the family in your Documents folder (“Copy and open family”). You can also choose to save the family in another location. (“Copy it to another folder”). 
• Note: The default folder is the same for all versions of Revit. So if the same family is downloaded in different versions of Revit, either you will need to select a different save location for each version or choose to overwrite the existing version.