Visibility States/Parameters with-in one Detail Item Family for plan drafting/annotations.

[Zamp_M212]

Hello everyone! My office is getting into more 3D work in Revit.

Slowing transitioning over from all AutoCAD. Everyone here has been in the business for over 10-20 years and I and one other are teaching the new digs. A little over a year and a half ago I changed everyone in my office's life with the introduction of dynamic blocks in AutoCAD. Everyone loves using them (the Dynm Blocks) but now all are wanting to use something similar within our Revit projects. We create beautiful drawings but now much more efficiently. 

To start I have attached our electrical symbol AutoCAD Dynmic Block below.

There are many many different visibility states within it and I would like to ask how I could make this same type of 2D Detail component/item as 1 family with Instance Parameters to change the different electrical symbols...

I am by no means a Revit guru but am learning more every day. Thank you all in advance for the help!

[barthbradley]

You can create similar in Revit.  Visibility Parameters controlled by Formulas  will get you there.  Maybe not even Formulas per se. Maybe just different Visibility Settings for different Family Types.

https://www.revitforum.org/node/1126

You ought to inspect the OOTB Revit "dynamic" Families and see how they are built.  

[ToanDN]

While it is possible to build everything into one family and control the visibility/dimensions/configurations by parameters, it may not be the most efficient way to build content.  I am on the camp of keeping things simple.  For example:

- a power receptacle, a data outlet, and a light switch should be different families because they are different categories altogether

- a normal power receptacle and a GFCI receptacle can be two types within the same family

If you are working in MEP, check out Revit MEP forum for input from other MEP users, which maybe more practical than input from Revit Architectural users.

[barthbradley]

TIP: You need to think CATEGORIES (as well as Subcategories) - not LAYERS.  

FWIW.