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**Steve_Stafford** · July 13, 2018, 06:22 PM

What is the context of these messages? Are you creating a parameter?

**WhirledPeas** · July 13, 2018, 07:56 PM

I'm just trying to load a family from a BIM website - it's a grab bar that is hosted to a wall, fairly basic...I'm not sure where to change these parameters in the family...

**Steve_Stafford** · July 13, 2018, 08:41 PM

Short answer...ignore it. Those values are probably not important to you for now anyway.

Longer answer... The family is using Shared Parameters that are competing with another set of Shared Parameters using the same criteria. You could edit the family and delete those parameters. If the data is more important then look into shared parameters more deeply.

**WhirledPeas** · July 13, 2018, 09:21 PM

Thank you, the unfortunate part is it wont even let me load the family and I've tried a few different ones that all seem to have a similar error come up. I'm probably going to end up drawing my own bar because I cannot seem to sort out how to access the parameters on any of the ones I've downloaded.

I appreciate your time!

**MPwuzhere** · July 13, 2018, 09:51 PM

Originally posted by WhirledPeas View Post

Thank you, the unfortunate part is it wont even let me load the family and I've tried a few different ones that all seem to have a similar error come up. I'm probably going to end up drawing my own bar because I cannot seem to sort out how to access the parameters on any of the ones I've downloaded.

I appreciate your time!

Remove the parameters from the family by deleting them from the Family Type properties in the family and reload into the project.
If there are a bunch of families that have that same issue, I suggest not to download families from that site again if they are that messed up with just parameters. Then again, I wonder about the legitimacy of their modeling.

(Watch, they are probably imported DWG's or something like that...)

**WhirledPeas** · July 13, 2018, 10:05 PM

Originally posted by MPwuzhere View Post

Remove the parameters from the family by deleting them from the Family Type properties in the family and reload into the project.
If there are a bunch of families that have that same issue, I suggest not to download families from that site again if they are that messed up with just parameters. Then again, I wonder about the legitimacy of their modeling.

(Watch, they are probably imported DWG's or something like that...)

Chicken Dinner, we have a winner. It was really quite simple in the end I must have been googling the wrong terms...thanks to you both! I appreciate your time!

**Aderonmu Isaac** · September 10, 2018, 11:08 AM

I have the exact same issue, the site I'm using is bimobject.com and i have downloaded families from there many times and they worked, pls what can i do

**biff** · September 10, 2018, 01:54 PM

I saw exactly that happen with a student trying to download a shading device from bimobject. Strangely, others had downloaded the same family with no problem or warning of the shared parameter clash. She had no shared parameters in her file.
Come to think of it, it was a project file she downloaded with the family in it. That might be the reason. I will look at her file tomorrow.

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