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I think I know what I want to accomplish, but I'm not sure how to get there. Maybe a nested family? I'll need 2 different schedules: a typical Isolated Footing Schedule (which I already have), and a Geopier schedule. The Geopier schedule will have the following fields: Mark (ex. GP1), Dead Load, Live Load, Wind Load, Seismic, Design Pressure. I don't need any Geopier "objects" in the drawings; only a tag. The Isolated footings need to be tagged like this: F1 / GP3. Not all F1 footings would have a "GP3" geopier mark. So, it's an Instance Parameter for each Isolated footing. However, each "GP3" would have the same values for Dead Load, Live Load, etc. So, "GP3" is a "Type" in that sense. So, if feels like I need to create a family for geopiers that really has no graphics in it, but just some type parameters for the different loads. Then I would load that family into my Isolated footing family and create a tag that would show "F1 / GP3" or "F1 / GP6" . . . Does that make sense?
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Joined: Fri, Jan 12, 2007
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You might want to look into creating a schedule key to tie into your Footing Schedule. If you go to http://www.denverrevit.com/?p=6 there is a link to download a .wmv that discusses schedule keys. It starts about 2/3 of the way in, so you can skip the first 15 minutes or so.
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That worked GREAT! Thanks!! The video is really helpful. I'm taking time to watch the whole thing.
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Glad that worked out for you. There's some other movies an that site as well, and a new one every month.
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