Include in SCHEDULES Families/Types NOT USED, just like Rooms and Sheets

[jordicunillperea]

Schedules are certainly one of the most powerful benefits of Revit, as they allow a level of management with a holistic perspective that allows us to focus on consistency. But there remains a gap in this purpose: those model families and types which are not in use

There's no need to imagine how to do it, or how to turn them on/off, the best way is the known one, and we already have two examples quite useful to imitate: the unplaced rooms or sheets. So it would be as easy as powerful to have the same three icons (Show/Hide/Isolate), to manage those model and loadable families which are still not used in the actual project or, even more, including linked files

[Mark_Engwirda]

@jordicunillperea Could you elaborate on what you would use this for, Are you suggesting that we could delete unused family types via schedules?

[jordicunillperea]

hi Mark,

it's just for managing information and families/types data, but with a full scope.  Sometimes we need to fill keynotes, assembly codes, type marks and some other custom parameters in a file that's still work in progress, which means that there may be some families/types out of the schedules that may appear after doing that task

is it a common task or is it a rare one?

[Mark_Engwirda]

@jordicunillperea  Thanks for letting me know

Plenty of early votes, not many comments.

[Sean_Page]

Gotta say, this one confuses me.

Schedules aren't showing Families or Types, they are showing Instances (Created Elements) of those Families and Types.  That is why Rooms still show up because they have been created, even if not visible in plan. Sheets are just "hidden" by the Appears in Sheet Index parameter, but still exists in the model.  A Family or Family Type can't be placed and doesn't exist in the same place and therefor wouldn't be scheduled. 

The idea of scheduling things that aren't there seems like it could lead to disaster for QT or just about anything else a schedule is good at, which is only showing what is being used.

[jordicunillperea]

Sure Sean, you are right, when you stay with the simplest and most immediate use of the schedules, without even folding the rows

[RTempleV4GAA]

This would be very useful for setting up wall types that might not be currently in the model, but will be by DD issue.