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First - Our office is still on 9.1 until the latest release has most of it's bugs fixed.

I just ran into a major problem that I can't seem to resolve.  I am doing a prototype hotel where I am using groups for the different room types.  Included in these rooms is everything associated with them except the exterior walls.

One of my major problems occurred when I worked on the door schedule.  The standard for the schedule is to group the doors according to where they are used.  ... doors is Guestrooms, Public Space etc.  When I set up the groups, I had not yet developed the room schedule & now I need to add a new parameter to the door which I've called occupancy. 

I do have this parameter set in the Room types.  I was able to add this information in the individual rooms even though the room is included in the group so I assumed I could do the same with the doors.  So I first tried using the room to/from (occupancy) to get the sort field.  That didn't work because sometimes the door to/from is backward from what I need.   

O K ... just reverse the to/from in the grouped door I say....  Easy on an individual basis but not in a group with multiple instances.  For these, you have to un-group and then change the individual door resulting in no more groups and you must do this for each instance of the group.  NOT GOOD! 

OK ... I got a great idea to save the group  to a file, import it in a empty project and edit it on a single basis.... re-save the group and import into my project.  When I did that, it came in as a new group so I just picked one of my matching group instances & switched it to the new definition.  After about 10 minutes, the new group showed up with correct door information except it lost it's room number ... & I don't know what else.  NOT GOOD  Much to much time & rework involved.

It would have been nice if the individual doors in the group could have been  edited the same as the individual room data is.  Has anybody worked with the new groups under REVIT Architecture and is this still a problem?

Thanks.... 

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While I myself have not worked in groups like this in Revit (of any version) I have been part of discussions regarding them being used in this manner.  Most of the people I have discussed this with have created the hotel rooms in a seperate revit file and linked it.  Is there a reason you are avoiding doing this?  I noticed you said you had done this, but it sounded like you left the object grouped inside of the external file, which would not be necessary.

Please let us know if you figure something out, I think this is a problem plaguing many Revit users. 

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rkitect,

I don't think you can link the same file as seperate instances but maybe you can....  If you can, then can each instance be different and have seperate parameter values?

Groups can have seperate instances and I think they are powerful  My problem was in assuming that the door instance could be changed the same way the room instace can be.  They should work the same but they don't.  REVIT architecture is supposed to have the groups working better and I am hopeful that they fixed this.  I would assume they have since I understand you can have group instances that have diiferent members assigned to them without having to re-group them as a new group.

I'm not sure how I'm going to fix my problem.  If I have to reload all the groups then rename & renumber all the rooms, that will be very hard to do.  If I had know ahead of time, I could have done a door schedule check and changed the room to/from before I saved the group.

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I have been working on RAC 2008 since it's release and haven't experienced any problems from what I thought were bugs (usually, I'm the source of the problem).  Anyway, I'm sure you've heard that the group editor has been expanded greatly in '08.  Your specific problem is hard for me to wrap my head around, but it's very likely that you wouldn't experience this problem with the new release.  I've been working on a 25 unit condo building, using groups for the repeating typical units without much of a hitch.  It's probably a long way to go to fix this problem, but if your office is willing to do it, I don't think taking the leap to '08 now would be a mistake.

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