Stretchable Door "Opening"?

[payingtoomuch]

I keep running into this issue.

I have some openings (masonry openings in this case) that I simply want to create openings of various. sizes without needing to create another family of a different name etc.

Idea being I place an opening and stretch it to whatever odd width I need.

Then I come back later and and dimension in plan.

My guess the reason revit wants me to create separate families is that this has something to do with scheduling. So, I can understand that for a cased opening as example (hollow metal frames etc.

But in these cases what I'm dealing with will NOT be cased per se.... so will be dimensioned on the plan.

Wondering what best practice would be for this type situation?

[RDAOU · Accepted solution]

@payingtoomuch 

Revit doesn’t want you to do anything. If you chose to model the door or opening and used Type parameters, every time you need a new dimension while preserving the existing one(s) you would need to create a new type.

if you wish to have a stretchable opening, simply use an instance parameter for the length and width.

when the openings are of similar dimensions using a types is more practical

Both can be scheduled the exact same way of the length and width parameters are shared parameters

[payingtoomuch]

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@RDAOU wrote:

@payingtoomuch 

Revit doesn’t want you to do anything. 

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Really? There are still a lot of times Revit doesn't like the way I want to do things so I'm always asking myself what it wants me to do. Less so now but not too far back I was at least feeling like it was asking me to do A LOT! Glad most of those days are behind me lol.

Perfect on the rest of the response.

Will start digging into this immediately!