Naming Convention Central Settings File - This file works as a settings file. You can choose to either load a file you already saved with the naming convention settings or you can choose to create a new file where you’ll save those settings to by clicking on Browse and typing the name of the new file.
Forbidden Words - All Family Names will be tested against the Forbidden Words specified here.
General Naming Pattern - All Family Names will be tested against the General Naming Pattern specified here.
The Family Naming Pattern is based on regular expressions that specify a search pattern. It is useful to check that Revit Families are using the desired naming convention, at least at the beginning of each family name.
The regular expression in the exsample is ^[-\\w_]+$ and matches strings that consist entirely of one or more characters from the following set:
a-z, A-Z)0-9)_)Let's break it down quickly:
^ — start of string[-\\w_] — any character that is a letter, digit, underscore, or hyphen+ — one or more of the above$ — end of stringComparison Patterns - The categories here selected will be tested against the Comparison Patterns specified here.
Save - Save your changes to the Revit file. You only need to set these settings once and after the first sync the whole team will get them as well. It is not necessary to set these settings for every user, as the whole team will get the settings after the following synchronization. It is also possible to change the settings from any computer who has access to the Revit file that has these specific settings.