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Let’s say you have a family that has shape handles for instance dimensions (Length Parameters). What if you want to use it for quick prototyping, and then switch that same family into a version that u…
Now that is a very Revit blog title, for sure 🙂 So I had a nice old Curtain Wall Panel Door family, which had a nested ‘container’ Generic Model family… … in which I arrayed a shared, nested Door Pane…
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Let’s say you have a nested family with a formula driven parameter, something like =Length/10. You want to expose this to a host family and make it a Reporting Parameter, but that option seems to be g…
Can you change built-in parameters from Type to Instance based, and vice versa? This post shows you can. The essence of the workflow is to start a family with the desired template, add a value to the …
Another nice workaround by Philip Chan – if you want to change one of Revit’s built-in Type Parameters (derived from a Family Template, such as Door Fire Rating) to an Instance Parameter, you just hav…
Great ‘glossary’ post on parameter categories in Revit:Parameter Project Parameters Family ParametersShared ParametersType Parameters Instance Parameters Revit ST: Revit – Understanding Parameters…
Steve’s post about ‘Weak and Strong’ is very informative. However, if you want to ‘stretch’ a family with instance parameters AND a weak ref plane, simply ‘Tab’ until you get Revit to say ‘Shape handl…
This is one of the most exciting blog posts I have read for some time:http://revit.blogspot.com/2010/03/accessing-project-parameters-in.html from Jay Polding at revit in plain english. Essentially, in…
So you are using the ‘grips’ to try and stretch instance parameters on a family, but it is a pain – sometimes they snap, sometimes they don’t, you can’t dial in a certain value to ‘move’ the instance …