Referencing nested family types in a catalogue

[mailbox]

I have built a family and added various types; I have then nested this into my final family and would like to change the nested family type dependant on the final family’s type. (Hope that makes sense). I can do all of this until I want to make a catalogue.

This is what I did.

Made a family and added types.

Made a new family.

Bought in the 1st family.

Selected the nested family and added a parameter called "Attachment".

This all works fine I can change the type of the nested family in the edit type dialog box.

But I need to make a type catalogue and when I export the family types as a txt document the attachment parameter doesn’t appear. So how do I reference this?

I have attached the RFA & TXT files.

Thanks

[Alaaeldin_Alsahli]

you cant export nested family into a catalog, Catalogs need to be the same name than the family to connect the path betwen both. so nested familly cant be read by txt file.

so what you need to do is the fallowing

open the family then edit your nested family and do a save as

LDLP Front Assembly.rfa

and the you could rework on this family and export it for family type catalogue

I suggest that you just nest annotation family into the main familly

I hope this Help

[Alfredo_Medina · Accepted solution]

The "export family types" tool exports other kinds of parameters but it does not export the family type parameters; however, you can add the parameter manually in the .txt. file, in this format: for the header it should be ParameterName##other## and for the values it should be in this format: FamilyName : TypeName

[mailbox]

Thank you so much works a treat.

Cheers for you time guys

[Alfredo_Medina]

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Alaaeldin_Alsahli wrote:

you cant export nested family into a catalog, Catalogs need to be the same name than the family to connect the path betwen both. so nested familly cant be read by txt file.

so what you need to do is the fallowing

open the family then edit your nested family and do a save as

LDLP Front Assembly.rfa

and the you could rework on this family and export it for family type catalogue

I suggest that you just nest annotation family into the main familly

I hope this Help

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What ???

[Alaaeldin_Alsahli]

Well I guess i miss understood the question. I thought he wants to export the catalogue of the Parameter which are inside nested family and not the main family.

[BIMadmin]

Hello Alfredo,

Thank you very much for this however I have followed this workflow and although the values seem to be correct in the window catalog pop up the values are not correct in the project.

do you understand what I mean?

https://autode.sk/2DmFEwX