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What's the point of shared parameter txt file?

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Prvoime
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What's the point of shared parameter txt file?

You create a family with some parameters that you want to schedule, they are shared parameters and are stored in a shred parameters txt file specific to that family.

You then load it into your project which has a different shared parameters file associated to it, but those shared parameters in family still work just fine.

Furthermore, you delete that shared parameters txt file that you created in the family, and in your project those parameters still work, can be scheduled and everything still works fine.

Furthermore, you send your project to someone, but you don't send the txt with shared parameters, and still even though they are now missing two shared parameters txt files, for them everything works fine!

 

So what's the point of keeping that txt file?

Should you create one for every family and project, or should you dump everything in one file even though you might need that one parameter just in that one family just in that one project?

 

What happens if you accidentally delete your one txt file that holds all shared parameters that you use? If you have some parameters that you constantly use when creating new families you'll have to recreate them, but other than that, nothing?

Families that are already created and projects that hold them will work fine?

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: Prvoime

Steve Stafford's Revit OpEd Blog was the most valuable to me when I was asking the same questions as you in the beginning.  He has written a number of blogs on Shared Parameters - all worth reading.  The biggest "Ah Ha" moment I had, was when I read this explanation that analogizes the Shared Parameter Text File to a Dictionary.  

 

Revit OpEd: The Shared Parameter File has no Relationships

 

...more here:

 

Revit OpEd: Parameter Related Post Summary

 

Revit OpEd: Shared Parameter File - A Little Clarification

 

 

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RDAOU
als Antwort auf: Prvoime

@Prvoime 

 

I can tell you why in one word/acronym ... GUID

 

For consistency and not to end up with (for instance) 2 or 3  "Material"  parameters in your project/category. Imagine you want to schedule doors >> you go to add the Panel Material field or the Length Field>> and you find 3 Length 4 Material...you add all and discover some columns are black and others filled partially with values.

 

That is one of the main reason on work-shared projects a common Shared Parameter file is a must...

 

 

 

 

 

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syman2000
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We have people who keep complaining about their template file or family file openly shared without compensation. One way you defeat this is to use shared parameter and link them together in a complex formula. When you look at Bimobjects, the families are filled with shared parameter and some will break if you attempt to replace it with family parameter. It has it's uses. In Revit 2022, you can create key schedule with shared parameter. This add way more functionality than previous version.

Check out my Revit youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/scourdx
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Prvoime
als Antwort auf: barthbradley


@barthbradley wrote:

Revit OpEd: The Shared Parameter File has no Relationships

...more here:

 


Thanks for giving me three days worth of reading material :grinsendes_Gesicht_mit_lächelnden_Augen:

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