Creating multiple instances of one family with different dimensions.

[chris.h740362]

I am quite new to Revit and as such don't know all the in's and out's of everything yet.

The firm I work for recently won a project to design a koala hospital and rehabilitation centre. We are in the early stages of the project and I am to create the model and documentation. I have a surveyors report listing 225 individual trees with each one have different dimensions.

eg. tree #1 has a spread of 12m, height of 20m and a trunk of 0.5m, while tree #2 has a spread of 10m, height of 20m and a trunk of 0.3m.

As you can see creating 225 individual instances of these tree's will very time consuming and tedious.

Is there a way do create multiple instances of the same tree and then alter the dimensions in a schedule or the likes?

[mitchellvoss]

all you need to do is have the "height" parameter,"trunk" parameter and the "spread" parameter to be "instance" parameters instead of "type" parameters.

Instance Parameter – Enables you to modify the parameter value separately for every instance.

Type Parameter – Enables you to modify the parameter value, which applies to all elements of the family type.