I've searched through the site to try to find an answer but can't find exactly what I'm looking for.
Is there a way to add a spot elevation to a family to fill an instance parameter within that family when loaded into a project? To expand, I've built a below slab drainage manhole family from which I can create a parametric manhole schedule which reads the various levels and sizes of the manhole and schedules them out for the contractor to follow, which works exactly as I want. The down side however is that I have to manually enter the cover level of the family into that parameter, the various other levels I also need are simply dimensioned from that level but it's annoying that I have to place the family at the correct level and then manually type in the cover level to that parameter.
Is there anyway I can have the family fill in it's own cover level parameter from the level which it is placed in the project. If there was an option to add a spot elevation in the family editor to my manhole family which then gets occupied once the family is loaded into a project that would be perfect, but that doesn't seem to exist. For example, if I could spot elevate the cover level of the manhole in the family editor and I dropped the family in the project with the cover at 10.5m above datum the cover level would return +10,500, then if I moved the family up by 150mm the parameter would automatically return +10,650, that would be ideal.
Any help or suggestions would be really appreciated.
Thanks!
Is there a way to add a spot elevation to a family to fill an instance parameter within that family when loaded into a project? To expand, I've built a below slab drainage manhole family from which I can create a parametric manhole schedule which reads the various levels and sizes of the manhole and schedules them out for the contractor to follow, which works exactly as I want. The down side however is that I have to manually enter the cover level of the family into that parameter, the various other levels I also need are simply dimensioned from that level but it's annoying that I have to place the family at the correct level and then manually type in the cover level to that parameter.
Is there anyway I can have the family fill in it's own cover level parameter from the level which it is placed in the project. If there was an option to add a spot elevation in the family editor to my manhole family which then gets occupied once the family is loaded into a project that would be perfect, but that doesn't seem to exist. For example, if I could spot elevate the cover level of the manhole in the family editor and I dropped the family in the project with the cover at 10.5m above datum the cover level would return +10,500, then if I moved the family up by 150mm the parameter would automatically return +10,650, that would be ideal.
Any help or suggestions would be really appreciated.
Thanks!
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