Hello and thanks in advance. This has been driving me nuts.
I have a client who wants each window individually tagged, is there any way I can do this without loosing my parametric functions? Currently, I have a families for single, double, triple etc. casements and double hung windows but when I tag them they show up as one window. Alternatively I can showed them all as single windows and fix my schedule, but they don't show up well elevations because Revit doesn't allow window geometry to join to clean up the trim.
I thought the solution was to update the nested family to have a shared family parameter but that removes all of my flexibility as far as I can tell. Do I really need to save off a different family for a pair of windows 2'-8"x5'-0" and again for 3'-0"x5'-0" etc. This will be a file management nightmare and will require tons of double work in the event I have a change to the family.
My best idea at the time is to remove the trim from my single window family and create a separate trim family that I can place on the exterior.
I find it hard to believe that Revit doesn't have a better solution for this problem and would love to hear anybody's feedback.
@ToanDN I keep seeing your name pop up when researching shared parameters and I hope you have some expertise on this.
Sounds like what you are looking for is a tag that has an Instance parameter in it's label. In opposed to a Type parameter which shows a parameter that is common for the entire type, the instance parameter shows an instance value you can manually control for each instance (even from the same type).
To control what label is used in the tag, you can edit the tag family and edit the label within.
In the parameter window you choose a different parameter to show.
Hope this helps! (:
So, if I understand correctly, you want to tag the individual windows in a mulled assembly. You have modeled the individual windows in there own family, made them Shared, and nested them into a host family, which is what you placed in the project. Did you also associate the Parameters in the Shared, Nested Families to Parameters in the Host Family? Sounds like you didn't.
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