Converting Plant 3D Pipe Specs to Revit MEP
The best way forward should be to rebuild your families. Most of the time native families work best.
Creating them yourselves means that you ae in control. If you are doing it right you will get consistency between the families (e.g. same linetypes, same parameters). This will result in a a consistent look of your project. It also will help with filtering/scheduling your objects. When using families from different sources assembling your views and schedules can become a nightmare. Families from other sources can be a good to study to get an idea how to construct your own. Editing families form other sources might be possible. Normally you will have to studu them to see how they were constructed. When you are getting experience in Revit family creation making your own families will often be as fast as editing someone else his families.
Depending on how you build your families you can make many variations of the same object. If you set up the family with different parameters, this will allow you to create different types by entering values for these parameters. You will have to decide how complex to make those families. You can make them relatively light (e.g an elbow with some variations in length, radius, angle) or make them like superfamilies (e.g fitting of elbow, tee and cross within a single family). Most people tend to make relative light families.
Louis
Please mention Revit version, especially when uploading Revit files.
the functionality is already built into the spec editor to export to excel --its pretty easy!
As for the other question, no, we haven't transitioned to Revit Completely yet 😞 Its been a few years since I've had to deal with revit and the current project i'm working on now uses P3D.
Anywho, here's the "howto" to export to excel
Try to use Fabrication Parts to use specs in Revit. There are many parts already modeled in there.
