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Kinship automatically evaluates Revit content for issues that impact performance, usability, and standards compliance. These checks are applied to families in your Library, Collections, and tracked Projects. Each family’s detail page shows the specific issues found, and listings can be filtered to show only families with issues. Project and Model families additionally show a badge identifying Corrupt families, and families with warnings. This reference lists all current Content Health checks, grouped by category.

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Corrupt Families

When the family file appears to be corrupt and may have generated an error or crash in Revit.
  • Corrupt family
  • Trying to process this family made Revit crash
  • Corrupt family makes Revit crash on edit

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Geometry & Views

Issues with the geometry or views of the family, for example there are no visible 3D elements.
  • View has no visible 3D elements
  • Non-native geometry found in family
  • Image found in family

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Hosting

Issues with the hosting, for example a host-based family which has no host face.
  • Hosting face appears flipped
  • Hosting face has been shifted

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Kinship Errors

Any family-related errors which were generated while processing the family.
  • Failed to export some thumbnails
  • Cannot copy lookup table
  • Failed to export RFA
  • Family cannot be opened and further details, including thumbnail and file cannot be generated
  • Family cannot be saved
  • Failed to parse XML
  • The item’s size exceeds the maximum size allowed

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Lookup Tables

Issues with a lookup table and its relationship to the family, for example if the lookup table is missing.
  • Lookup table missing
  • Revit LookupTableLocation CSV inserted instead of local CSV
  • Missing internal lookup table

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Naming

Issues with the family names, for example is it empty or does it end in a space.
  • Name has trailing spaces
  • Name suggests it is a backup file
  • Type name contains double spaces
  • The family is missing a default family type
  • Name is empty
  • Name contains invisible control characters

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Parameters

Issues with parameters, for example if the string value is over 512 characters.
  • Parameter with big string
  • UniFormat assembly code not recognized
  • OmniClass code not recognized

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Revit Errors

Any family-related errors which were generated from Revit.
  • Revit Error

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Type Catalogs

Issues related to the type catalog file and its relation to the type, for example if the catalog file is empty or cannot be found.
  • Type catalog empty
  • Type catalog parameter missing from family
  • Type catalog parameter duplicated
  • Type catalog parameter determined by a formula in the family
  • Family has a type catalog but more than one internal type
  • Type catalog failed to parse