In order to get our electrical symbols to appear as our conventional standards, be 3D modeled components, and fit on a drawing, we have created custom families incorporating multiple components. For example: we have a family with two data ports, a phone port, a TV port, and an IG outlet, the symbols for this run perpendicular to the wall but they act as one component so they can be hosted in the wall and not floating out in space. See attached for further clarification. There are inherent problems with this but the big one seems to be in scheduling. Since these combos are one family you cannot scheduling the individual elements, so it counts this combo as one, as opposed to adding two tallies to data, one to phone, etc.
Has anyone come up with a fix that lets them graphically show mass amounts of electrical devices properly (to me this is perpendicular to a wall), not have them floating in the middle of a room (i.e. hosted to a wall), and be individually schedulable? ]
Hopefully this made sense, thanks for any thoughts.