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    <title>idea Family Type Naming Fields from Driving Parameters en Revit Ideas</title>
    <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/family-type-naming-fields-from-driving-parameters/idi-p/8885040</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Have field-based family names.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It would be nice if you could define family type names by its driving parameters. Say for example you have a bench with L x B x H dimensions, it would be nice if you could define the family name by "&lt;STRONG&gt;L&lt;/STRONG&gt;" x "&lt;STRONG&gt;B&lt;/STRONG&gt;" x "&lt;STRONG&gt;H&lt;/STRONG&gt;", such that each time you update one of those parameter values, the name of the family changes. Currently, when creating multiple unique types it can take a lot of unnecessary time to rename each family type accordingly.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:57:36 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2019-07-02T11:57:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Family Type Naming Fields from Driving Parameters</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/family-type-naming-fields-from-driving-parameters/idi-p/8885040</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Have field-based family names.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It would be nice if you could define family type names by its driving parameters. Say for example you have a bench with L x B x H dimensions, it would be nice if you could define the family name by "&lt;STRONG&gt;L&lt;/STRONG&gt;" x "&lt;STRONG&gt;B&lt;/STRONG&gt;" x "&lt;STRONG&gt;H&lt;/STRONG&gt;", such that each time you update one of those parameter values, the name of the family changes. Currently, when creating multiple unique types it can take a lot of unnecessary time to rename each family type accordingly.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:57:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/family-type-naming-fields-from-driving-parameters/idi-p/8885040</guid>
      <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-07-02T11:57:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Family Type Naming Fields from Driving Parameters</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/family-type-naming-fields-from-driving-parameters/idc-p/8885339#M27978</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I think you are mixing and matching "family" and "type" a bit loosely. It's fundamental to Revit's whole category/family/type paradigm that within a category (say, furniture),&amp;nbsp; &lt;U&gt;family&lt;/U&gt; provides the basic geometry and fixed dimensions of a related set of objects (level seat, angled back, curved arms, four 2" x 2" legs) , and that &lt;U&gt;type&lt;/U&gt;&amp;nbsp; provides the dimensions that vary: L, B, H.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;U&gt;Families&lt;/U&gt; have nothing to do with variable dimensions, &lt;U&gt;types&lt;/U&gt; have everything to do with them. So, within Revit's paradigm, what you really are asking for is that the name of the &lt;U&gt;type&lt;/U&gt; (not the family) changes each time you change one of the L,B,H dimensions. The family name remains the same (&lt;STRONG&gt;Outdoor bench with angled back and curved arms&lt;/STRONG&gt;) for all of its dimensionally different types (&lt;STRONG&gt;60 x 24 x 36&lt;/STRONG&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;STRONG&gt;72 x 26 x 42&lt;/STRONG&gt;, etc.)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;That said, this would indeed save a lot of time and frustration. I often go into "Edit Type &amp;gt; Duplicate", and change the dimensions but forget to change the name, or vice versa. Your request would get tricky to implement, however, if a dimensional parameter that is not included in the name of the type is changed, like seat angle, or glass thickness, or what have you. That type would be dimensionally different, but still have the same name (well, with a "2" after it) as the one it was duplicated from.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2019 13:31:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/family-type-naming-fields-from-driving-parameters/idc-p/8885339#M27978</guid>
      <dc:creator>bill_gilliss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-07-02T13:31:47Z</dc:date>
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