For me, personally, this is usually a deal killer, as I consider “Thou shalt not mess with my Shared Parameter file” to be the eleventh commandment. If you choose to take advantage of the more advanced “Properties” functions that are on the ribbon, your Shared Parameter file will be changed to point to a BIMobject Shared Parameter file. There is one item to be aware of, however. Downloading a family will not only download and save the file automatically to a predetermined location (controllable in the BIMobject settings), but will also bring it into your current Revit project at the same time, ready for placement. I won’t go into a detailed description of every button on the ribbon, but using the “Browse” button will bring up a dialog box that will allow you to search through the entire content library from within your Revit session. I have Revit 2016, 20 and it created the ribbon in all three). (BIMobject will install for pretty much every version of Revit that you have installed – or most, anyway.
Once you’ve downloaded and installed the app, you will have a “BIMobject” ribbon in your Revit session. The intent is for you to install the BIMobject add-in for Revit. There’s nothing wrong with your installation, and you can still find the content you used to look for on Autodesk Seek. However once you upgrade to Revit 2018, you’ll find that the “Search” field has been removed from the “Insert” ribbon tab.
Using Revit 2017 or earlier, if you enter a value in the Search field on the “Insert” tab of the ribbon, you will be redirected to the search results on the BIMobject web page, and aside from maybe having to create a new account and seeing a slightly different (and in my opinion, improved) interface, you may not have even noticed that there was anything different going on. Not too long ago, Autodesk Seek was replaced with BIMobjects. If you have been looking for the Autodesk Seek search window in Revit 2018 and can’t find it, you’re not alone.
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