Simple Family With Electrical Info

[PhilvK]

I am creating a simple family that is just an extrusion that acts as a placeholder for a piece of electrical equipment. I want to be able to place the extrusions in a project, arrange them to show the intended layout,  and be able to schedule the basic electrical info for the different types of equipment so i can send the plan and schedule to the electrical engineer for them to do the real engineering.

I created shared parameters for Volts, Amps, and Watts and loaded the family into a test project, but those fields don;t appear as fields that are available for the schedule. Can anyone please help me out on my process, i.e., what am I doing wrong?

[barthbradley]

What's the Schedule Category? Electrical Equipment? Did you model the Family in a Electrical Template (rft)?  

If not, open the Family and re-categorize it.  

[PhilvK]

I figured out by creating shared parameters for the electrical criteria.

[PhilvK]

I used the Specialty Equipment Category. It seems to work.

[barthbradley]

Shared Parameters don't need to be "Categorized", but the Schedule Category needs to match the Family Category that the Shared Parameters are used in.  

[PhilvK]

Got it, thanks