Create a family with instance counter

[manol_manolov]

Hi!

I'm sorry for the silly question.
I want to ask is it possible to create a family/annotation family with simple circle and number and when you place it in the project and multiply it --> to have folowing numbers. So i can count/give a number/ to parking spaces in a garage for example. I do it manually for now.

Thanks for your time in advance.

Greetings!

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

Some family categories make use of the Mark parameter to be autofilled. Unfortunately the family categories tha do that are limited.
Therfore these kind of tasks are often done with Dynamo. There it is easy to create a sequence and write these values to a certain parameter. You can even make it more sophisticated that depending on some rules which parking space gets which number. Another dynamo option would be to first draw a spline through the parkingspaces and then have Dynamo (re)number the parkingspaces based on the route of the spline.

[manol_manolov]

Thanks for your time, sir. Have a nice weekend.

[barthbradley]

PyRevit add-on can do that effortlessly.