Electrical 'Isolaation' Panelboards

[dtiemeyer]

Our health care design group uses 'Isolation' style panelboards, which seem to be some weird hybrid of a Panel & Transformer.  Does anyone here have a way to utilize the Revit circuiting with this style Panelboard?

[smbrennan]

Off the top of my head without having really tried it before ...

Create a Family to represent your Transformer. Make it SHARED (Make sure the Part Type is properly assigned).

Create a Family to represent the Isolation Panelboard. Load the transformer family into that parent family. Load into project.

You can TAB-SELECT the nested Transformer, and assign circuiting/voltage as your ordinarily would. 

[MuirEng]

Deal with it as normal but hide the transformer in view?

(But Shawn's method is more sophisticated)

[timlove]

If you are working in 2020 or newer I would agree with Shawn.

Older versions of Revit had an issue with Shared Families that contained connector elements.  They would show up at an offset from the project (0,0).  If you are working in an older version of Revit I would recommend making a small transformer family that you can place at the panel location and just do not show it on plans. 

[dtiemeyer]

Hi All, thanks for the feedback.  It appears this is already a wish-list item.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/panel-schedules-improvements/idi-p/7565487