# Export Revit families

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/export-revit-families/17516>\
**Category:** Revit\
**Created:** [December 19, 2017, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/export-revit-families/17516 "2017-12-19T07:52:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mohammad\_Nawar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/mohammad_nawar/32/45287_2.png) [@Mohammad\_Nawar](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Mohammad_Nawar)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/export-revit-families/17516/1 "2017-12-19T07:52:20Z")

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Hi guys

Is there a way to export Revit families, i found a topic about that but it didn’t work with me.

> [@Save Families from Revit to a Path](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/save-families-from-revit-to-a-path/3983):
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> Quick question for the experts out there. Can Dynamo save queried Revit Families out to a specified path? &nbsp; Thanks

Thank you

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**Author:** ![Mohammad\_Nawar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/mohammad_nawar/32/45287_2.png) [@Mohammad\_Nawar](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Mohammad_Nawar)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 7:57am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/export-revit-families/17516/2 "2017-12-19T07:57:22Z")

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It seems the problem that it’s reading the system family so i am looking for way to get the non system families

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**Author:** ![jacob.small](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/jacob.small/32/161030_2.png) [@jacob.small](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jacob.small)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/export-revit-families/17516/3 "2017-12-20T00:48:14Z")

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Export them to what exactly? Can you post a file for us to play with?

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**Author:** ![Mohammad\_Nawar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/mohammad_nawar/32/45287_2.png) [@Mohammad\_Nawar](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Mohammad_Nawar)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/export-revit-families/17516/4 "2017-12-20T09:29:16Z")

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Hi jacob, rly thanks that you are trying to help, yesterday i found that it trying to edit system families which is not editable. the idea it was to export all families to a defined directory. i edited the python code by adding try and except and it worked. check the picture below.

 ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/1/5/153661880b96e0803e1b1ef1632c64b31acf16e1.JPG)

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**Author:** ![jacob.small](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/jacob.small/32/161030_2.png) [@jacob.small](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jacob.small)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/export-revit-families/17516/5 "2017-12-20T13:46:55Z")

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Great news! 🙂