Fitted vs Loose Furniture

[james.odonoghue4YQVG]

I'm currently setting up a company wide view templates and I've come across an interesting issue. Or GA plans normally show fitted furniture but not loose furniture. It there a way to differentiate between the two in a template without making everyone model their fitted furniture as an incorrect family type?

[rxi.gg]

It's simple. Create a shared parameter for the furniture category. Put the information in each family and then apply filters on the views

[james.odonoghue4YQVG]

Whilst that would work it would require me to make sure that every furniture family used by everyone working here includes that shared parameter. But if there's no other way, I'll do that, thanks.

[barthbradley]

So you're setting up View Templates to control the VGOs of certain elements within the View? Sounds like your people need to employ Subcategories more than anything else.  

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Revit-C...

...and/or you need to employ Rule-Based Filters in the View Templates

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/Revit-D...

...Filters might need to be added to Projects to deal with those situations where company standards weren't followed when creating and introducing a new Family to the Project.   Sh*t does happen.      

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

There are multiple other ways:

- enter "Loose" in Comments and use it to filter

- put them in different phases

- put them in different categories: Furniture System vs Furniture

- put them in different worksets

- create a Design Option Set, keep all Loose in one Design Option and nothing in another. When you need to hide Loose, just set the view to use the Empty option.

- u=you can add a custom parameter to filter, but no need to be a shared, just a project parameter assigned to Furniture category