Keynoting Different Items inside a Family File, Seperately?

[BMA-ADMIN]

Hey Guys,

Quick one for you....

-You have a family file with different items in it. Lets say a table with chair, and a screen. 

You load this family into your current project, and the keynote picks up every item as a whole and assigns only 1 keynote abbreviation to it.

Is there a way of assigning separate keynote abbreviations to each of those items separately? and maintaining all items in the same family file?

Thanks In advanced.

[ToanDN]

Edit each nested family and set them to Shared.  Then in project you can TAB to pick each one when keynoting them.

[BMA-ADMIN]

Awesome mate thanks for that...It worked for the Nested Families part. 

What about if the family file was made from items that are not nested? Say a desk family with a non nested extruded privacy screen? The privacy screen would be extruded casework.???

I'm guessing I might need to delete the screen and nest that as a separate family file as well right?

[Anonymous]

Thats cool. My issue in this topic is, I cannot schedule the nested family in the project. Is their a way to resolve this?

Cheers

[ToanDN]

Make the nested families Shared.

[michael]

Thanks but a disappointing solution?

If shared option checked:

"Shared family types cannot have properties driven by parameters of the host family. Parameter associations will be removed.....blablablabla etc etc

defeats the purpose of nesting the families..

[Islam_Hussien]

i have the same issue i want to add the numbers of a nested family for sscheduling how can it be done

[mhiserZFHXS]

It says how to do it above. Read the thread.