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    <title>idea Method of Importing Details Containing Families With Unequal Parameters en Revit Ideas</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;One of the most obnoxious things I am dealing with is that when I import details containing Family Instances that do not have identical parameters (such as a single added parameter for "Draw As Hidden"), Revit duplicates the family name ("Box" becomes "Box1") and sometimes also renames the type.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;There are several more logical solutions.&amp;nbsp; For example, if you reload a single family's definition, Revit keeps all identical parameters, and assigns the default value to any new parameters.&amp;nbsp; This would be a logical method for family instances in imported elements.&amp;nbsp; An alternate method could be a dialog (for each "same name but inexact parameter" family) that prompts for what value to assign to the new parameter.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What is most obvious is that the current method is woefully inadequate, causing a model to have 4,5.....8 different families that are almost identical but for the "added features".&amp;nbsp; This discourages evolution of families once you identify new options the family should have had already.&amp;nbsp; Nobody creates a family with ALL of the features you could possibly want, since many of these needed features only become obvious upon use.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:06:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Method of Importing Details Containing Families With Unequal Parameters</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/method-of-importing-details-containing-families-with-unequal/idi-p/7765684</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;One of the most obnoxious things I am dealing with is that when I import details containing Family Instances that do not have identical parameters (such as a single added parameter for "Draw As Hidden"), Revit duplicates the family name ("Box" becomes "Box1") and sometimes also renames the type.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;There are several more logical solutions.&amp;nbsp; For example, if you reload a single family's definition, Revit keeps all identical parameters, and assigns the default value to any new parameters.&amp;nbsp; This would be a logical method for family instances in imported elements.&amp;nbsp; An alternate method could be a dialog (for each "same name but inexact parameter" family) that prompts for what value to assign to the new parameter.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What is most obvious is that the current method is woefully inadequate, causing a model to have 4,5.....8 different families that are almost identical but for the "added features".&amp;nbsp; This discourages evolution of families once you identify new options the family should have had already.&amp;nbsp; Nobody creates a family with ALL of the features you could possibly want, since many of these needed features only become obvious upon use.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:06:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2018-02-09T15:06:22Z</dc:date>
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