From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Converting a group to a link

Converting a group to a link

- A really interesting feature that we have when working with groups is we have the ability to actually convert a group to a linked file. There's some interesting implications to doing that. What I'd like to do is walk through the process of taking a group here in this really simple file, and taking that group then and converting it to a link. I'm going to start off by actually creating the group. I've got this reception area here and this waiting area and it contains a number of furnishings, and I want to take all of the furnishings in this area, and convert them to a group. These small workstations over here, these cubicles, these are already groups of their own. I'm just going to select one instance of those workstations, right-click and go to Select All Instances, and choose Visible in View, and that's going to select all instances of that workstation. Then I'm going to hold down my Control key, and going from right to left, I'm going to create crossing selections to grab all of…

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