Rebar Dimensions not being populated in bar bending schedule in Revit 2023

[james.mahinda-edvik]

I am generating bar bending schedule in Revit 2023. However, for some bars, the rebar dimensions are not being populated in the schedule.

See the snippet below.

Any solutions?

[jay_colcombe]

To try and decipher the issue;

Are you using the OOTB Revit rebar shapes or are they user created?

If user created it could be the Parameters are not inline with the Revit Rebar Paramaters hence the anomaly?

The only other time cells are blank is due to there being multiple instances of differing values, for example if you had rebar that were the same bar mark and the length of A had been rounded and reporting different values it would appears as blank because there were multiple values for A.

Try duplicating the schedule and sorting for the Paramater/Value A and see if you get multiple lengths if not i would suggest it is the aformentioned issue.

[james.mahinda-edvik]

The rebar shapes in use are Revit rebar shapes. Not user created.

[jay_colcombe]

Can you add the Paramater "Length of each bar" to the schedule please and upload the result

[james.mahinda-edvik]

@jay_colcombe See the result in the snippet below

[jay_colcombe]

Can you try importing the attached Rebar Schedule into your model - Insert Tab > Insert from File (any view other than a Schedule View or it is greyed out)

Does this repeat your issue?   

Share your Schedule and i can check here!

[james.mahinda-edvik]

@jay_colcombe See the result below:

[jay_colcombe]

As guessed there are Paramaters not being reported if there are differing values Revit no reports <Varies> and not blank cells.

Without the model it is difficult to determine, however if you wanted to share?  Alternatively you could create a duplicate model and reload the original rebar shared parammeters back into the duplicate model to see if this resolves the issue.

1) Open the rebar shape family say 00 as this apprear to be problematic
2) Type Propertie > delete all parameters A, B,..., R under the Dimensions group
3) Add in new parameters A, B, ..,R from the Shared Parameters File - Rebar Shapes.txt  - \Metric\Library\Structural Rebar Shapes\M_Rebar Shapes.txt
4) Associate the dimension on the shape with a parameter (with param B as it was before)
5) Save and close the family
6) Insert the modified

7) Check that the rebar schedule does not have duplicate parameters A, B, C...

Does this resolve the issue?

[james.mahinda-edvik]

@jay_colcombe You can have a look at the model I have shared in the link. Kindly keep it confidential. Thanks.

[jay_colcombe]

For refernce my Shape Code 00 Family Type Paramaters are these using the Revit Default Family so your should be the same as this if using the default Rebar Families

[jay_colcombe]

You have multiple Paramaters for the dimensions on the Rebar which as originally suggested would mean they have been edited at some point!

Adding in the alternative A, B, C, D, E reports the values as expected.

02 - B8 appears to be reporting the correct values, reinsering all the rebar shapes from the Revit Family Library and overeriding the existing paramaters fixed all the issues so really you have to determine why the other alternative dimension paramaters were added and are these company specific?  One big indication here is Shape Code 11 where the A & B dimensions have been reversed (or is it country specific)?

I have deleted your file here also!!!!

[james.mahinda-edvik]

@jay_colcombe I actually found a solution to the problem, although by accident.

I reloaded the rebar shapes from the rebar shape library. This sorted the problem.

Thank you for your help.

[jasoncolcombe · Accepted solution]

I did reference doing this in my last reply but glad it is all sorted.

@jay_colcombe