shared parameter, stop connection between components

[husam_al-jawhar]

Hello all,

I hope you are doing well. I have two inquiries.

First, I made the shared parameter as the project requirements, and each column must have its own parameters, but when I started adding the value to the column, it appeared that all the project's columns took the same values. How can I make each column unique and have its own shared parameter?
The second inquiry came when I took a simple example of two columns and one beam using a precast column and precast beam family. Then, when I started moving the column with the tool I created, the beam still connected to the column and expanded. How can I stop this connection?

Best,

[jeremy_tammik · Accepted solution]

You are asking two different questions. In future, it might be better to separate different questions into different threads.

Also, it might be a good idea to spell check your text before submitting it. Talking about a 'sherard' parameter and a 'sheared' parameter will make searching for and finding this thread sometime in the future much harder.

In both of your questions, you leave much open, so I can only guess what you might be doing and what might be the problem.

Regarding the first question: maybe your shared parameter is a type parameter instead of an instance parameter?

For the second question, you may be able to disconnect the beam from the column by modifying its LocationCurve.JoinType property:

• https://www.revitapidocs.com/2023/00b7a1a8-0e12-d02e-7e25-4716baf6dcdc.htm

You can learn more by searching for 'revit api disconnect beam column':

• https://duckduckgo.com/?q=revit+api+disconnect+beam+column

[husam_al-jawhar · Accepted solution]

I will do that in the future. Thanks a lot for your answer.