Adding a new parameter group in a Revit project
Parameter Groups are hardcoded in Revit and can not be added, changed or deleted.
Louis
Please mention Revit version, especially when uploading Revit files.
thanks!
it is possible to add a new Group Parameter,
you just need to be able to edit the Shared Parameter File. if you're working for a company, duplicate their shared parameter file into a project folder specific to that project.
Otherwise you can just make edits to that shared parameter file, see attached images.
in this menu you can add new groups and new parameters to your family, then extract those within schedules in your project:
The OP has already completed this step, they are looking to use that group within the project. (i.e. When creating a project/type/instance parameter how you can group it under Text, Dimensions, Constraints, etc.)
I was also hoping this functionality existed, it would be really helpful in organizing our parameters.
This has been an issue since day one when Revit was introduced!
After all these years, Autodesk is refusing to fix this or offer an alternative solution!
Adding additional Group Parameters to organize is something only users can understand. I have asked for this in every BIM meeting I had with Autodesk, for years and years.
while this is easily possible with Archicad!
This is in particular helpful when exporting models to other platforms or even IFC, I wanted to use my companies name as a group to separate out all our objects parameters when our models are merged with other disciplines within the enterer project. This way all the important data that we want our client to see and use is under our company name as a "Group parameter"
Its like talking to brick wall with Autodesk, very disappointed.
I agree with you that there is no reason to customize the parameters group in Revit. But maybe what they are asking is to add another group naming. let's say when we are creating a family and there are a lot of plates that need to do, there is a top plate, bottom plate, and side plate together with the bolts in one family, remember that all of this is needed to control, to easily control this without confusion we can group it by adding let say Top Plate, then all the parameters for the top plate will go to under the naming of the top plate. Unfortunately, we don't have that option.
The request is understandable but at the moment not possible with Revit. A common method to get around this is to create text parameters with formula in between the input fields to create a sort of sub-categorization for the family.
Agree. When converting this to Solibri for instance, this problem will occur if they need a different naming convention for the specific group parameters.
we cannot provide other naming aside from "Data" or "Dimension" or Division Geometry" etc.
