Here is a little gift to all my readers. The link below allows you to download a 2012 version RVT project that contains In-place and Component versions of families that are of the Category ‘Stairs’ and ‘Railings’.
Download link
Revit does not allow this to happen out-of-the-box, so you can be sure that this hack is not best practice, and it won’t be supported by Autodesk. Use at your own risk!
Having said that, if you know what you are doing, these families could be quite useful to you.
Revit Family Stair Category
RFA Railing Category
Trying to work out that hack???
Combination of Shared parameters nested into type properties?
IFC??
You got me???
Export IFC then Open IFC 🙂
Plus this technique to make the Components:
Save an In-Place Family as an RFA for use in another project
NICE!!!!