Now in Kinship: Suggested Content

Kinship now offers suggested content for your library based on your most popular project content. Expand and fill the gaps in your library with a flow of intelligent content recommendations.

For teams working in Revit, it’s incredibly common for users to go into old projects to get content that they need. There can be several reasons for this, but often it's either because there is no company library for the team to pull from, or because the library doesn't yet have everything that the team needs.

Much to the dismay of BIM managers everywhere, re-using old project content is a time suck and a black box that tends to repeat itself over and over. It might take a half hour or more for someone to find the right project model, open it up in Revit, and then find the content they want to use. In addition, that process happens “behind the scenes”, without other project members or BIM managers being aware of it. So the broader team and future projects don’t get any value from it, and the cycle simply repeats from project to project.

Turning a widespread problem into a solution

Our new Suggested Content feature takes the problem of recycled project content and turns it into a valuable resource for building your library. In the new Suggested Content area of your library landing page, Kinship will show you the most frequently used content from your projects that is not yet part of your library or collections.

This new feature helps you expand your Revit library with the content that your team has already been using. Even if you don’t want to add suggested content to your library, the feature still helps you spot key gaps in your library that you should address in order to minimize the use of old project content.

How it Works

The Suggested Content section will show you up to 100 families at a time, based on the content that’s been used most frequently across all of your tracked projects. A Revit family has to be used on a certain minimum percentage of projects in order to be shown as suggested content.

For each Revit family in the Suggested Content section, you’ll be able to see details on which projects have used the family before as well as versions of the family across those projects. You can also see full family specs like:

• Revit version

• Family types and parameter data

• File size

• Potential health issues

You can choose whether to add suggested families to your library or dismiss the ones you don't want to use. New content replaces the content you add or dismiss to ensure a steady flow of recommendations to help you continue expanding and improving your library.

It’s available now

Suggested Content in Kinship offers a smarter way to build out your Revit content library by taking advantage of the common practice of harvesting content from old projects. Access the new feature by navigating to the library landing page on your Kinship website and going to the "Suggested Content" section.