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Add or Edit Asset Families

Use the Add or Edit Asset Families view (ab-asset-families-edit.axvw) to define families that you can use to group similar Equipment Standards. For example, you might have multiple Equipment Standards for boilers to define their various capacities; can group together these equipment standards for boilers into a single “Boilers” family.

This table is also used to store the list of your Revit families. For example, in the sample HQ project the table is already filled with a list of Revit families.

Once you define asset families, you can associate them with equipment standards. See Define Equipment Standards. You can then search for assets in the BIM Viewer according to a standard mapped to a family. See Search for Equipment Standards.

To define an asset family

1. Load the Add or Edit Asset Families task using the Navigator paths listed at the top of this topic.

2. Click Add New to access the Asset Family edit form.

3. Complete the Asset Family fields as follows:
   

   Field	Description
   Family Code	Enter the value by which you will identify this asset family.
   Family Name	Enter a descriptive name.
   Category Code	Select a value from the validating Archibus BIM Categories table (System Management Help).

See Also

Classifying Assets for Use with BIM (Concept)