At the moment it is not possible to create families that should live in a sub-category of the Wall, Roof or Floor Category, even though we can create in-place versions of these families. Being able to create component families for these categories is important for creating families that we currently have to create using the generic model category, such as, Composite roof panels, composite wall panels, rainscreen panels, rainscreen brackets, fall arrest systems and raised access floor components. We need to create these as components rather than creating parts from the in-built walls, roofs or floors so that we can schedule the required orbering information from the modelled components and so that the model components can contain the relevant product data for down-stream use by FM as a digital O&M manual.
I see two possible solutions,
- Provide templates that allow the generic model template to be set as a sub-category of the Walls, Roof or Floor category.
- Create additional Revit categories such as Wall Components, Roof Components & Floor Components that can be used to hold these families. These new schedules require the same abilities as other top level categories and allow the same scheduling capabilities as other categories.
It would be a bonus if we could filter the schedule by Family, Family&Type, Type and sub-category rather than just sort a schedule by these values.
Darren