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This is a great idea, and it has been an issue that has resulted in different workarounds.

 

I've heard some form of copy-monitoring can be done, but that doesn't always work very well. Another strategy, at least with plumbing fixtures, is there can be invisible box families with extrusions and connectors that can be placed throughout the model and over top of the fixtures in the architectural model.

 

The concern I would have about using the linked fixtures and connecting to them is the quality of the families the other parties are modelling. Since mechanical or electrical may still responsible for whatever linked item at the end of the day, parameters like fixture units, tagging, voltages, flow rates, etc. are all more important to the consultant than they are to the architect.

 

If there could be a way to use the linked family so there is only one 3D object between the models, but where the designer concerned with it could have control over the connectors and other important parameters in the model that concerns a particular discipline. So on a lab bench the mechanical consultant might have a parameter called Hot Water Fixture Units for a sink and the Electrical consultant might have one called Line Voltage.