🚀 New: Searchable text in drafting views, sheets, and detail items

Kinship now extracts the text contained in drafting views, sheets, and detail items stored in the library. Searching from the Revit Add-in finds these items by the text that appears in them.

What is extracted

Text notes, annotation tags, keynotes, generic annotations, titleblock text, and view and sheet names and numbers.

For sheets, Kinship collects text from the sheet and from everything placed on it, including the views on the sheet and the detail items inside those views, so a sheet can be found by text that appears anywhere on it.

Limits

• Dimension values inside detail item families are not extracted.

• Text in imported CAD files, images, and PDFs is not read.

🚀 New

• Added a Run diagnostics button to the Kinship page in the Revit Options dialog. It checks for connection, installation, and configuration issues affecting Kinship.

✨ Improved

• Adding a project template now checks the model's file size before upload and shows a File is too large message when the model exceeds the maximum upload size.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed an issue where comments entered when adding a project template were not stored with the template, ensuring they appear on the template page.

• Fixed an issue where loading families from the web platform into Revit could fail with a connection error for users on private networks.

• Fixed an issue where the family details panel in the library could show the wrong source and link for families that belong to collections.

• Fixed an issue where guide grids were included with sheets added to the library.

• Fixed an issue where an upgraded family file could remain locked while the family stayed open, preventing the upgraded version from being saved back to the library.

🧹 Cleanup

• Improved performance and stability.

• Updated internal dependencies and build tooling.

🚀 New: Project Templates

Project Templates lets teams store Revit project templates in the Kinship library and start new models from them without leaving Revit.

How it works

To add a template to your library, open the model in Revit and choose Project Template from the Add to Library dropdown. Then set a name and optionally add a comment. If a template with the same name already exists, Kinship will add the model as a new Revit version. If a template with the same name and same Revit version already exists, Kinship will overwrite the existing one.

To create a new model from a template, click the New Project button on the Kinship ribbon panel. This will display a list of the templates in your library. Selecting one starts a new model from that template. Templates might be available in several Revit versions, and Kinship automatically opens the version that most closely matches the one you are working in.

You can also start a new model from the Kinship web app by going to the Project Templates section on the Library landing page, clicking into any template and then choosing New from Template.

Availability

Everyone can start a model from a template using the New Project button.

Only Content Managers and above can add or update templates.

Limits

• Templates can be .rte or .rvt files, and the latter either central or non-central models.

• The New Project dialog lists only templates available in your Revit version or earlier.

• Newly added templates will appear for use only once their upload finishes processing.

✨ Improved

• Updated the Kinship ribbon with a refreshed icon set and clearer tooltips and descriptions for every button.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed an issue preventing some details from being loaded.

• Fixed an issue where materials assigned to family Object Styles could be unassigned in some cases.

🧹 Cleanup

• Improved performance and stability.

• Refactored internal code in preparation for new features.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed an issue where materials assigned to family Object Styles could be unassigned in some cases.

🧹 Cleanup

• Improved performance and stability.

• Refactored internal code in preparation for new features.

✨ Improved

• Tracked models with Materials enabled now process custom material images after Sync with Central, reducing the need to reopen a model before Kinship copies newly added material images.

• Improved material image handling so Revit’s built-in material images and images referenced through custom render appearance folders keep their existing paths. Custom image files added from direct file paths are still copied into Kinship when Materials is enabled.

• Improved cleanup of uploaded family files by clearing unused Object Style material references and removing unused Revit material assets more completely.

• Updated add-in installation support for Revit 2026 and above while preserving compatibility with earlier Revit versions.

• Improved compatibility for the browsable search interface in Revit 2024 and above, reducing conflicts with other add-ins that use WebView2.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed an issue where private collections and projects could be missing from the Revit Add-in search scope filters for Admins.

• Fixed an issue where uploading files or folders could fail to generate thumbnails for selected RFA files.

• Fixed an issue where family uploads could remain stuck in pending upload after a successful upload.

• Fixed an issue where material processing could show a Revit worksharing error when another user owned a material appearance asset.

✨ Improved

• Improved material image handling so Revit’s built-in material images and images referenced through custom render appearance folders keep their existing paths. Custom image files added from direct file paths are still copied into Kinship when Materials is enabled.

• Updated add-in installation support for Revit 2026 and above while preserving compatibility with earlier Revit versions.

• Improved compatibility for the browsable search interface in Revit 2024 and above, reducing conflicts with other add-ins that use WebView2.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed an issue where unused Revit material assets could remain in uploaded family files after unused materials were removed, ensuring downloaded RFAs are cleaned more completely.

✨ Improved

• Tracked models with Materials enabled now process custom material images after Sync with Central, reducing the need to reopen a model before Kinship copies newly added material images.