Thanks for mentioning my comment. It's very efficient way to speed up your workflow, but these days in my company we are using Sticky add-on for importing Excel spreadsheets (luminaire schedule, motorlist, etc).
This may be a good workflow for Lighting Fixture families, but these parameters are created and added to your project as Project Parameters. When it comes to Mechanical Equipment or other categories that can have many different Schedules, this workflow would add all these parameters to every family even if they are not needed which in turn bloats the project/families. There are tools that can push parameters to families without checking this box. What about parameters that have the same name but have a different GUID?
Jon added the parameters as a "Shared Parameter" NOT a project parameter. This will add the value to all of the families with that category (in this case, light fixtures). So yes, if you used this technique with mechanical equipment, it would add to all families that are mechanical equipment. If the parameter is type based shared parameters, you would only see them when you go to the edit types dialogue box. If you are managing an entire department and your typical workflow involves downloading manufacturer's content, then this method is much better than having your employees using plugin/apps to push parameters to families every time they bring them in. This is by far the best method for that workflow. Just tell staff to edit families inside the schedules. Who cares if there are extra parameters in each family.
Im basically doing the same with just project parameters so when ever i get new family it will automatically have to those parameters that i use in luminaires lists. What is the benefit of adding them directly to the family?
Thanks for mentioning my comment. It's very efficient way to speed up your workflow, but these days in my company we are using Sticky add-on for importing Excel spreadsheets (luminaire schedule, motorlist, etc).
This may be a good workflow for Lighting Fixture families, but these parameters are created and added to your project as Project Parameters. When it comes to Mechanical Equipment or other categories that can have many different Schedules, this workflow would add all these parameters to every family even if they are not needed which in turn bloats the project/families. There are tools that can push parameters to families without checking this box. What about parameters that have the same name but have a different GUID?
Jon added the parameters as a "Shared Parameter" NOT a project parameter. This will add the value to all of the families with that category (in this case, light fixtures). So yes, if you used this technique with mechanical equipment, it would add to all families that are mechanical equipment. If the parameter is type based shared parameters, you would only see them when you go to the edit types dialogue box. If you are managing an entire department and your typical workflow involves downloading manufacturer's content, then this method is much better than having your employees using plugin/apps to push parameters to families every time they bring them in. This is by far the best method for that workflow. Just tell staff to edit families inside the schedules. Who cares if there are extra parameters in each family.
Great tip.
Will definitely use in my schedules.
Thanks and keep posting.
Thank you for sharing it.
Interesting....this is good to know. Especially for Lighting Schedules. I wonder which Revit version this was added in?? Thanks for this tip!
Im basically doing the same with just project parameters so when ever i get new family it will automatically have to those parameters that i use in luminaires lists. What is the benefit of adding them directly to the family?