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Preview Generator

The Preview Generator creates consistent preview images for Revit content used by Flow and the Revit content library.

Use it to scan a content folder and automatically create missing preview images for supported family and drafting-view content.


Open Preview Generator

On the Revit ribbon:

Flow → Content → Preview Generator

Select the content folder you want to process.

Preview Generator searches the selected folder and its subfolders for supported content.


Supported Content

Preview Generator supports:

  • Revit family files (.rfa).
  • Extracted drafting-view container files (.rvt).

Existing preview images are skipped automatically, allowing Preview Generator to be run against an existing content library without regenerating every preview.


What do you want to do?

Generate Preview Images

Select a content folder, process supported Revit content and create any missing preview images.

➡️ Generating Preview Images

Having Problems?

Find help if content cannot be processed, a preview is skipped or an expected preview image is not created.

➡️ Troubleshooting



Getting Help

Hover over Preview Generator on the Flow ribbon and press F1 to return directly to this page.