Sort order of Types in a 'Family type' parameter

[Duncan Lithgow]

When I pulled a new window I've made into our family catalogue project file I noticed that the sorting of nested types in the Family Type parameter (instance based) is wrong. See screen shot: (text is danish)

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Why is Nested_Fag_b800xh1500mm : 314.215_Nested_Fag_Fast_vindue_b800xh1500mm not listed beside the other two types from the same shared family? What is the sorting based on? Looks pretty random to me.

[greg.mcdowell]

It lists them in the order they were loaded in the project. Best bet... figure out 90% of what you'll need and load them, in order, into your Project template.

[Duncan Lithgow]

Thanks Greg. I'm not sure I think that makes any sense... but if that's the way it is then at least I know now.

[greg.mcdowell]

LOL - No, it doesn't make a lot of sense. I suspect it was an oversight by the original designers and they've just never fixed it.

[ionicman]

LOL - No, it doesn't make a lot of sense. I suspect it was an oversight by the original designers and they've just never fixed it.

REVIT 2015 now has the capability to sort family parameters.

[CADMama]

REVIT 2015 now has the capability to sort family parameters.

But that does not help in the look up for Family Types.

[LinasL]

But that does not help in the look up for Family Types.

Is this issue solved now in Revit 2016? I am getting really annoyed of it..

[jsteinhauer]

I believe that it sorts in the Family Types drop down based upon the Family: Type ID. This value is based on the load order within the template/project. This is similar to schedules, and the perceived randomness of unsorted values.

No, I do not think that 2016 resolves this issue.

Hope this helps,
Jeff S.

[ArquiChecho]

Duncan Use a Macro to sort the order of Family Types inside a Family file you can use this:

private void DisplayParametersInAscendingOrder(Document familyDoc)
{
FamilyManager familyManager = familyDoc.FamilyManager;
familyManager.SortParameters(ParametersOrder.Ascending);
}

You can find the macro here:

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Use a Macro can be found here:


Here is the Macro

private void DisplayParametersInAscendingOrder(Document familyDoc)
{
FamilyManager familyManager = familyDoc.FamilyManager;
familyManager.SortParameters(ParametersOrder.Ascending);
}