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Silly problem about shared parameters

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 20:48:49 GMT

Good morning

Sorry for the dumb question, but everytime i try to import the family attached to the post, revit gives me the classical "shared parameters error" about the same name and so on...The problem is that i already opened the family and deleted the parameters Nominal Width, Nominal Length and Net Weight (KG), and still revit gives me that error.

Thank you for the support

P.S. Should i attach the project file aswell?

Re: Silly problem about shared parameters

barthbradley — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:10:48 GMT

Have you checked the nested families as well?

Re: Silly problem about shared parameters

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:31:55 GMT

Yes, multiple times. Apparently there is no family with those parameters.

Re: Silly problem about shared parameters

barthbradley — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 22:28:28 GMT

Yes, I think I see the issue. You can't remove or modify parameters in Nested Family. It's probably been created from a Template. The Template parameters are probably the issue. You may need to rebuild the family. The only other solution I can think of, is to locate the families in the Project that are sharing the same Parameter GUID, and change those instead. Should be easy to locate using a Schedule.

Re: Silly problem about shared parameters

ToanDN — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 22:49:25 GMT

Try this file.

Re: Silly problem about shared parameters

barthbradley — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 22:50:51 GMT

What was your approach @ToanDN?

Re: Silly problem about shared parameters

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:02:20 GMT

Nope, it doesn't work (same error). I think i'm going for @barthbradley solution. Thank you.

Re: Silly problem about shared parameters

barthbradley — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:11:50 GMT

@ToanDN might have been onto something too; I just don't know what it is. Is Revit throwing the same number errors with his; or less errors with his?

To really be able to troubleshoot, we would need the file that is actually throwing the errors.

Re: Silly problem about shared parameters

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:28:00 GMT

Same error. I'm attaching the project file for troubleshooting.

Again, thanks for the help.

Re: Silly problem about shared parameters

FAIR59 — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:31:07 GMT

Removing the shared parameters in the familyparameter dialog, doesn't remove them from the document.

Those shared parameters you mentioned are "stored" in the elements with Id : 135714, 135755 and 135754.

Delete these elements and you should be able to load the family into the project.

Re: Silly problem about shared parameters

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:36:19 GMT

Why revit tells me those IDs are not valid and will not be used?

Re: Silly problem about shared parameters

FAIR59 — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:40:12 GMT

you have to delete them in the family document.

Re: Silly problem about shared parameters

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:48:58 GMT

It worked. Thank you.

PS: How did you get those IDs?