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Wish List System
2012-06-12, 10:12 PM
Summary: You should be able to create your own categories for niche components.

Description: You should be able to create your own niche categories for components. Lumping all the grey areas into Generic Models has major drawbacks for scheduling, tagging, linking, etc etc etc!

Imagine being able to create a "signage" category, or a "restroom accessory" category, or any number of categories that relate to the type of architecture you do. This would allow you to control the graphical representation, scheduling, etc much more effectively than trying to hack it with worksets, filters or parameters.

As a simple implementation of this, custom categories could show up as subcategories of Generic Models, or a new Custom top-level category.

Product and Feature: Revit Architecture - Architectural Family Contents/Components

Submitted By: Jacob Schwartz on Tue, 12 Jun 2012

Dimitri Harvalias
2012-06-12, 10:39 PM
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As a simple implementation of this, custom categories could show up as subcategories of Generic Models, or a new Custom top-level category.
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You can already do this in the family editor or in a project environment. From the Object Styles dialogue click on the New Subcategories button and create your new sub cat under any object category you'd like.