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Plumbing Fixture - Built in Parameters?

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Anonymous
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Plumbing Fixture - Built in Parameters?

I have created a bunch of plumbing fixture families that work well. I started to add our shared parameters to them this morning and noticed that there are pre-existing parameters. (See attached image.) Does anyone know what these are for? I am especially intrigued by the Yes/No parameters that you have to double-click to change.

Thanks for any insight.
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Anonymous
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I agree.. I have tried multilple ideas to use them but have had no luck. I don't know what they are for.
Good Luck
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jason.martin
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All of the "connection" parameters that you refer to were created for plumbing fixtures before Revit MEP existed and have been left "in place" for whatever the Architects originally used them for. They provide no real "functionality" as far as Revit MEP is concerned.

The fixture unit parameters should be mapped to the fixture unit parameters on the individual connectors that you add to the family (and the out of the box content "should" be configured this way), so that you can change the fixture unit values without having to edit the connector information.

hth

jason
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This item is still actual, 9 years after. These parameters are completely useless – you can't use or edit them in project, no meter the type of view, or template you operate. What is worse: they are visible in schedules, but they are not checked even though it's automatically done while you create this kind of family…

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