Loadable Family Renamer (Revit pyRevit Tool)

Bring every loadable family in your Revit model onto one naming standard.

Family names drift: every consultant, content site, and office template brings its own style. This pyRevit tool lists every loadable family in the project and renames the lot to a structured [Component][Location][Material] convention from one editable grid, instead of renaming families one at a time in the project browser.

What's inside

• One pyRevit button: Rename Loadable Families
• A preview grid of every loadable family with its category, current name, and an editable proposed name
• One-click convention naming in the [Component][Location][Material].rfa format
• Auto-detection of 21 common material codes (HEA, IPE, RHS, glulam, precast concrete and more) from existing names
• Category and name filters for working in batches
• Duplicate and conflict validation before the rename runs

Who this is for

• BIM managers enforcing a family naming convention across models and templates
• BIM professionals cleaning up family names in inherited models
• Revit users transitioning into BIM who want reviewable batch renaming

Requirements

• Autodesk Revit 2021 or newer
• pyRevit installed (free, from pyrevitlabs.io)
• Runs in a single confirmable, undoable Revit transaction
• The shipped component, location, and material code lists are editable in plain Python to match your office convention

What you'll get faster

The family naming cleanup that normally means hundreds of clicks in the project browser. Load, filter, apply the convention, review the grid, and rename in one confirmable pass.

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