Im going to make a nuanced point here,
IT IS TRUE INVENTOR IS THE PROGRAM DESIGNED FOR THIS,
it even has content libraries full of various types of bolts, countersunk holes, bearings, "intelligent" sheet metal based on gauge not dimension, framing profiles, according to the national or international standards agency of your choice. Every solid body in an inventor "family" is ideally split into its own seperate part file.
BUT... you CAN do it in Revit if you really had to.. or if you are like me and you just want to hack the program to do more and more things.
By using nested shared families, which allow you to schedule separately, or even create exploded assemblies in the project.
I have absolutely seen contract drawings with sections/details cut through the bathroom vanity, specifying various toe kick materials, hinges, knobs, paint colors, shims, caulking beads etc, in houses with special custom-built cabinets done by a subcontractor, where a "home depot vanity" was not desired, or even something simple such as a slab of marble with exposed plumbing underneath. It is the contractor's responsibility to decide if they are able to take on this custom cabinetry work when they are deciding whether to bid on the job.
In short, use shared nested families. Make another version with Unshared families when scheduling prebought products. decide what Revit Categories you want nested parts families to fall under, I myself wonder if a door panel qualifies as "Casework" or "Generic Model" because maybe technically the entire finished product is the Casework.
Thanks for your post it's been helpful to change to different door handles on my cabinet. How could I get this to populate in my casework schedule? I just want the name of the handle to come up on my schedule so we can get a simple takeoff of how many of a particular handle we need to buy.
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