License & FAQ
Every Revit family on this site is free to download and free to use – in personal, educational and commercial projects alike. This page sets out the terms in plain language.
What you can do
- Download any family, free of charge, with no registration.
- Load the families into your own projects – including models you produce commercially for clients and employers.
- Edit, rename, re-host parameters, add types or otherwise adapt a family to suit your project and your office standards.
- Share your finished models containing these families however you like.
- Use the families with no attribution. Credit is appreciated but never required.
What you cannot do
- Resell the family files themselves, individually or as a collection.
- Re-host the files for download on another website or file-sharing service. Link to this site instead – links to any page are welcome.
- Claim the original files as your own work when distributing them.
No warranty
The files are provided free of charge and without warranty of any kind. They are built with care and checked before publishing, but you are responsible for verifying that any family is suitable and correct for your project and complies with the codes and standards that apply to your work.
Frequently asked questions
Are these Revit families really free?
Yes. Every family on the site is free to download, with no registration, no accounts and no hidden paywalls. The site is funded by advertising.
Can I use the families in commercial projects?
Yes. You can load the families into models you produce for clients and employers, into tender and construction documentation, and into any other commercial work. The only restriction is on reselling or re-hosting the family files themselves.
Do I need to credit families.draftsperson.net?
No. Attribution is never required. If you would like to credit the site or link back to it, that is appreciated but entirely optional.
What is a Revit family?
A Revit family is a reusable component – a door, a window, a piece of furniture, a title block, an annotation symbol – that carries its own geometry, parameters and behaviour. Loading a family into a project is how you place that component instead of modelling it again each time.
What is an .rfa file?
.rfa is the file extension for a loadable Revit family. You load it into a project with Insert > Load Family, or double-click it to open and edit it in the Family Editor. It is not a project file – project files use the .rvt extension.
Which versions of Revit are supported?
Families are saved in an early Revit release wherever practical, so they upgrade cleanly into current versions. Revit upgrades families forward but never backward, so a family saved in an older release opens in far more versions than one saved in the newest.
How do I load a downloaded family into my project?
In Revit, go to Insert > Load Family and select the downloaded .rfa file, then place the component from the Project Browser. If the download includes a type catalogue (.txt) alongside the family, keep both files in the same folder and Revit will offer you the list of types when you load it.
What is the .txt file included with some downloads?
That is a type catalogue. When a family ships in many sizes, the catalogue lets you pick just the types you want at load time instead of bloating your project with all of them. Keep it in the same folder as the .rfa, with the same file name.
Do I need to register or sign up to download?
No. There is no account or registration – the .rfa files download instantly.
Are the families safe to load?
The downloads are ordinary Revit family files, not programs or installers, so there is nothing to run or execute on your computer.
Are the families parametric?
It varies by family. Some are fully parametric with adjustable dimensions and types; others are fixed-geometry components where parameters would add no value. Each download’s description tells you what it contains.
What types of families can I download?
Categories include title blocks and annotation symbols, doors, windows, furniture and casework, plumbing and lighting fixtures, electrical and mechanical equipment, structural columns, framing and foundations, profiles and generic models – twenty-eight categories in all.
How often are new families added?
New families are added as they are built and cleaned. You can see the newest ones in the latest additions on the homepage, or subscribe to the RSS feed.
Do you offer AutoCAD blocks as well as Revit families?
Yes. Free Revit families are here on families.draftsperson.net, and free AutoCAD blocks in DWG format are available separately at blocks.draftsperson.net.