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material takeoff for a nested family

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arsham
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material takeoff for a nested family

hi all,

 

i have a casework family, which within has different casework families, nested into it, these nested families have instance material parameters, that when brought into the host family, they are locked to the type material parameters of the host family, but when i load the host family into my project, and get a material takeoff, only one material shows, out of 6, i dont understand why.... any ideas?

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blank...
als Antwort auf: arsham

Just tested it, works for me. Can you share the family? Get rid of geometry if you can't share it, just replace it with dummy extrusions.

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arsham
als Antwort auf: arsham

SENT

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arsham
als Antwort auf: blank...

check your inbox please

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: arsham

Are the nested families SHARED? They have to be.  

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arsham
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

they are shared 

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blank...
als Antwort auf: barthbradley


@barthbradley wrote:

Are the nested families SHARED? They have to be.  


My first thought too, but then when I tested it I intentionally left nested one as non shared. Material for it was still visible in project in material takeoff. Any idea how and why?

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: blank...


@blank... wrote:

@barthbradley wrote:

Are the nested families SHARED? They have to be.  


My first thought too, but then when I tested it I intentionally left nested one as non shared. Material for it was still visible in project in material takeoff. Any idea how and why?


 

Well, without seeing the file, I can only guess.  Obviously, the schedule isn't reporting anything for that one parameter, so my guess is that the material associated to a different parameter. Do you have similarly named parameters in the list of available parameters - and only one of them is used in the Scheduled Fields? 

 

Post the File if you want. I'll look at it and tell you exactly what's going on.  

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arsham
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

sent to you

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blank...
als Antwort auf: barthbradley


@barthbradley wrote:

Post the File if you want. I'll look at it and tell you exactly what's going on.  


Here it is, cylinder is the nested one, not shared. Still material set for it is visible in project.

NEST.jpg

 

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blank...
als Antwort auf: arsham

@arshamCheck inbox, I think your issue is solved.

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arsham
als Antwort auf: arsham

please reply it here so i can mark it as solution... thanks

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: blank...

I'm not sure what you want to do. If you want to report the material of the nested family, then you need to make it a Shared Family.  If you want the ability to change the material of the nested Family in the Project, you need to Associate the Material Parameter in the Shared, Nested Family to a Material Parameter in the Host/Parent Family. 

 

Mat Fam 3 4.png 

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blank...
als Antwort auf: barthbradley


@barthbradley wrote:

I'm not sure what you want to do. If you want to report the material of the nested family, then you need to make it a Shared Family. 


This, this is what I've been thought. But cylinder in my little example is nested - not shared - yet its material is visible and can be scheduled in project.

Why?

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: blank...

Because you associated the Nested Family Material Parameter to a Parameter in the Host.  

 

Mat Fam 3 4 - 1.png

 

See...the Nested Family is unaccounted for in Schedule.  

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blank...
als Antwort auf: barthbradley


@barthbradley wrote:

Because you associated the Nested Family Material Parameter to a Parameter in the Host.  


Oooh, it only pertains to materials that aren't meant to be changed through host family! Got it. Thanks!

Never created such "fixed" families so this never came up as an issue for me, I was just always ticking "shared" without thinking about it too much.

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arsham
als Antwort auf: arsham

arsham_0-1704735931369.png

this is the solution thanks to @blank... 

 

revit is so stupid.... just because the millwork is not setup to show in Fine mode, and i want to show the 2d family of the shop drawing in the Fine mode, it wont get the data!

 

the freaking family exists it the model, and all the elements, schedules dont have filters for Fine or Coarse mode. fix it ffs....

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: arsham

I have no clue who the heck I am responding to in this thread.  The OP is @arsham and @blank... is asking me questions that I'm answering.   What the heck is the problem and what the heck is the solution?  I'm completely lost.  

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blank...
als Antwort auf: barthbradley


@barthbradley wrote:

I have no clue who the heck I am responding to in this thread.  The OP is @arsham and @blank... is asking me questions that I'm answering.   What the heck is the problem and what the heck is the solution?  I'm completely lost.  


You answered my question, so as far as I'm concerned - solved :grinsendes_Gesicht_mit_lächelnden_Augen:

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barthbradley
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@blank... wrote:


You answered my question, so as far as I'm concerned - solved :grinsendes_Gesicht_mit_lächelnden_Augen:


 

Ha! Well good. All is not lost then.  By the way, what was the specific solution you came up with?  I'm guessing it was in that file I opened from you. I thought that was the OP's file for us to inspect.  I see now that it was a contribution by you. Probably the one that solved the crime. he, he.    

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