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I am going to share my family creation tricks as I learn them in the hopes that others might share thiers with me. Families seem to "want" to be catagorized as one thing, but need to be catagorized as another in order to make them work. Toggle between catagories in the family editor and see how they make a family act. For example.... you would normally put a duct mounted supply grille with the Air terminals, but not so if you want it to orient in elevation and rotation to the duct, and automatically connect. For that you need to catagorize it as duct mounted equipment.... confusing for future users, but it works well Just another hard learned lesson in the life of a revit mechanical designer......
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This process may get you in trouble later on. I think a better process would be to use a nested family. Build the grill in the proper family and make sure to set the family to shared. Now load this into a new family "duct mounted equipment" and add the material that will enable it to connect properly. Now, eveything will schedule and tag correctly.
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I like that. I had to copy over my tag and give it a new catagory, plus I had to place a ghost placeholder diffuser in order to schedule. Ill try this trick this afternoon.
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