Hello,
I would like Autodesk Revit developing team considers at upgrading the Coupler family in Revit.
I have worked with Coupler family in Revit from project to projects and it really annoying for all of my team members, even the client and some of my friends who I know that they must work with coupler too.
There are 3 major issues about the behaviour of coupler family:
1. Not all the rebar shape that the coupler can attach to. Sometimes we create new shapes, the coupler does not want to attach to it.
2. There are several coupler brands, I downloaded their family, used it in the project and add some of our shared parameters for filtering, scheduling as company or national standard. And these shared parameters show empty rows in schedules althogh we have formulas or filled in parameters inside the family.
3. If I want to attach ending coupler (anchoring coupler) for rebar (randomly), sometimes the coupler does not attach at the ending side as we want.
And 1 minor issue that I detected at the moment, it relates to rebar (coupler's host) behaviour also:
- When export coupler as IFC file, then I open the IFC file back in Revit. In general, Revit will convert all the IFC file into the approriate category as defined IFC templates. However, for coupler, it understands that a coupler is always attached to a rebar. Opening an IFC file with couplers, all the couplers we modelled will disappear. Or trying to open in Revit an IFC file exported by another software (not Autodesk products) having couplers, these coupler elements will disappear.
I hope that Autodesk Revit may look at this issue in the future. At the moment, I've created a temporary coupler family in another category (Adaptive generic model) to use in the project. It's not a good solution honestly but less annoying than the default one.