Enable/disable conduit connector based on parameters

[alex.karshakevich443563]

Hello group,
I'm trying to model a junction box that has an adjustable number of connectors on its sides - one parameter to control the number, and another to control the conduit size. They feed the rest of the dimensions of the box.
I was planning to create a row of, say, 10 connectors on each side, and the user would set an instance parameter to a number between 2 and 10 to customize their box. The sizing works great, but I'm not seeing a way to hide the extra connectors (i.e., if the parameter that sets the number of connectors is two, I"m resizing the box to the correct size, but would like to hide the other eight connectors, so that you can't see them and can't draw conduit from them). Revit doesn't seem to support this. Are there any workarounds?

Thanks in advance.
Alex

[daniel.morrison]

Revit does not support turning connectors "on and off". The only workaround would be to use an array. You set an array in your family with a parameter controlling the number of elements and place a connector on a face of each of the elements. Then when you decrease the array number the element dissappears and so does it's connector.

A warning though that once you decrease the number in your family you cannot get the connector back again so your base family always has to stay with the maximum number of connectors. Use types within the project to change the number of connectors.

Also, using arrays for this is notoriously unstable and could end up causing more problems than they are worth.

[alex.karshakevich443563]

You set an array in your family with a parameter controlling the number of elements and place a connector on a face of each of the elements. Then when you decrease the array number the element dissappears and so does it's connector.

This was the push I needed to complete the family. Thanks for the suggestion. The conduit even stays put when I increase/decrease the number of connectors on an instantiated box. We'll need to do more testing to see what problems it causes in bigger models.