Tag for quantity of assemblies

[sagnewYUXLR]

I have various spools (created using assemblies) on a sheet. 

under the spool ref i would like to tag the number of times that assembly exists. 

is there anyway to achieve this? i know i can get the qty from a schedule but i'd like to also put this under the spool itself without having to manually input this with the potential for human error. 

thanks 

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

The issue is that tags read values from the object it is attached to. This means by default it will not see other objects (assemblies in your case).

Since Revit 2022(?) you have tags that can attach to multiple hosts and it can see the different assemblies. However you would need to point the tag to all the assemblies. You can then make use of "Multi Leader Tag Host Count"

Other option would be to add a "quantity" project parameter to assemblies and fill that (manually) with the quantity of assemblies. You could write a Dynamo script that would count the asemblies and fill that parameter automatically. Then it is only a matter of not forgetting to run the script. 🙂

[sagnewYUXLR]

Thanks Louis. 

It's a pity something like this couldn't be picked up with a tag instead of running dynamo scripts 🙂 

will need to find the best place to learn this