Annotate Array Count on Plan

[curban]

I have a number of arrayed families that we want to display the counts for on the plan. For the life of me I can not figure out a way to display this. It's easy enough to create a schedule and sort/group by parameter (each array is assigned a different "classification" parameter, but we want to show the count for each array on the plan itself. We can do this by a simple text box, but the arrays are going to be changing and we would like to have a parameter that updates with the array. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

Group each array using the assembly tool. This way revit wil se all elements of the array as a single element

[Anonymous]

Forget what i said. Now i understood that you want to cout the element for every array and not the array itself. 

[curban]

Yes, the assembly tool is greyed out when i select the array. 

Essentially what I want to happen is similar to how you can select a temporary dimension and make it permanent. When you select the array, a line appears with the total number of objects in blue, I want that number to show up all the time on each array, but there doesn't seem to be a way to make this permanently visible like with dimensions.

Hope that is more clear, having trouble describing it.

[Anonymous]

I guess the best you can do is to create a schedule for the "group models" category. Then group by type.

[Anonymous]

Uncheck itemize every instance

[TripleM-Dev.net]

Hi,

In the Project you could do something with dimension and global reporting parameter and generic annotation..

But it would require a new parameter for each different array.

Can you make the array in a Family, with you're families as shared nested families, that would be easy enough?

Could you post a image of the Array'd family.

Otherwise only by creating a Addin (or Dynamo)

The Array line seems to be a Element with a count field, interesting.

Array element

- Michel

[barthbradley]

Is it something you can Tag? 

[Anonymous]

How did you do that? Now i'm interested too

[curban]

This is exactly what I am looking for, but how did you make this happen? 

If it helps, the objects I am arraying are custom parking stall families. 

[barthbradley]

In this case, the Array is a Line-Based Family.  The Tag is reporting the Number of Arrayed Components through a Shared Parameter.  

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

Parking Stall Family nested and Arrayed in a Line-Based Family...

Maybe this will help.  Open the "Parking Stall Array" Family in this RVT.  

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

Make sure you make the Parking Space a Shared Family before you nest it -- for accurate QTO's in Project. 

[Alfredo_Medina]

You need 1) a family that repeats an item of a certain category, where the number of items is a shared parameter. Then you need 2) a tag that tags elements of that category and that reads that shared parameter. Pretty much what @barthbradley  already said (so please mark his reply as a solution). I just want to add some pictures to illustrate the workflow:

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[curban]

Thanks to both of you. I think i have found the cause of my confusion and the answer to get what I want...just a little jumping through hoops to make it work with a parking space family. Thanks again.