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Hello all, I was looking at creating a Revit macro, but found out quickly that I just don't have the required programming skill to pull it off. Nor do I have the time or inclination to do so. So, I'm hoping that someone here might be able to make it for me. I don't think it would be very complex, but I could be wrong. What I need is something to set/change item numbers for user selected items as they are picked, with the ability to set a starting number. The way I see it working is a user starts the macro, sets an initial number, then starts picking items, and the item numbers get set, incrementing up from the initial number. A simple left to right, top to bottom macro won't work (there's an add on that will do that, I've tried it and it doesn't do what I need), our numbering follows a path through a space, id doesn't just start in one corner. Does anyone know of a macro/add on that can do this, or if not, can someone make one?
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For starters, what are you trying to number. I have done a few of theses-some i've done and some are harder. For instance, room numbers are difficult because revit stores their order on its own unknown to the user. If you are just numbering text items thats a little simpler. If you shed some light on what exactly you are trying to number maybe i can help.
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I am numbering foodservice equipment, specialty equipment catagory. I have a shared instance parameter for the item numbers, it's a text parameter. Something I didn't mention before is that I would need to be able to change the parameter at some point in the future. We are working on some new office standards, and one of the things that will likely change is our shared parameters, so once we do that I would need to change the macro to work with the new item number shared parameter.
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here is some code to get you started. I spliced it from my renumber doors macro. You will probably need to make some changes though i have not debugged it yet. Basically you pull the equipment number parameter, set the number variable to a number that keeps incrementing itself with drno++ and then set that value back to the equip item parameter. With the new code changes in 2011 though, I am having a hard time with the change refreshing itself to the screen; still investigating this one. Remember, you need to pick the equip items first and then call the macro! The equipment number should be stored in the equip item and not the tag also. Hope this helps to get you started.
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Thank you, but I really don't know how to use that. Do I just cut and paste it into a new macro? If so, where? I did see that the current parameter name is "Autodesk.Revit.Parameters.BuiltInParameter.DOOR_NUMBER", and that's what I need to change to my parameter. It's not a built in parameter, so what do I change it to?
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