Boolean Family Variables

[Anonymous]

Hey all,

I'm trying to do something that has ended up giving me far more trouble than I thought it would; mainly because of my unfamiliarity with Revit. Initially I was trying to use an algorithm to search through the users drawing, find valves, check if they were open or shut, and then draw a halo/ring around them. Then I was told to do it through the families. So, I opened Revit, created my rings, and now I'm at the point where I'm trying to apply them, but again: Unfamiliar. I'm right here:

The Valve Shut property is Shared.  I want to implement the Valve Status based on whether the Valve Shut is true/false.  It gives me a bunch of different error while I'm trying to do this because there's no documentation (I've found) on how to do this.  Does anyone know?  Help me Obi Wan Kenobi!!  You're my only hope (of closing this task)!

[ToanDN]

Post a family here. Indicate the Revit version.

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to get this:

On to this:

Based on the YES/NO variable Valve Shut using something like this:

[ToanDN]

I meant the RFA file, not the screenshots.

[Anonymous]

My bad.  Here they are:  And I'm doing this in Revit 2016, followed by 2017

[ToanDN]

On which view of the family do you want the symbols to appear? Plan, front, side?

[Anonymous]

The plan view

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Try the attached.  Steps below:

Open and Closed symbols need to be on different subcategories so that they appear in different colors when you load them into the host family and projects.  Add a subcategory and name it differently for each Generic annotation family.

Load them in the host family, place and constrain the location to where you want.  Assign the visibility parameter as shown below.  Do it for both symbols.

That should be all.

P/S: now thinking about it, the annotation symbols will not follow the size of the Valve model family, but the scale of the view they appear on.  But you may already know that.