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MrMcPike

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Hello all,

at my firm we have an MEP schedule that is a mechanically based schedule. it pulls equipment, designation, description and then a ton of yes/no parameters. everything works well and keep in mind this is NOT a panel schedule.  In this schedule, we have a "panel" and "circuit" column that pulls the panel and circuiting information from the family oncei ts powered.  My problem is, some of the mechanical families pull the panel and circuit number and some dont! i tried EVERYTHING. Has anyone encountered this? why would some pull and some not?

Thank you!

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The problem is probably in those families.  They would have to have the correct paramters.

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MrMcPike

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WW, i found the problem. i matched all the parameters and that worked well but wasnt the problem. the problem was the family template that the MEP equipment was created in.  for example, the air handler units and fans were originally created with a 2011 family template.  I started two new emchanical equipment families, and copy/pasted the equipment into the 2012 family template and the schedule updated the panel and circuit! Very strange.

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Glad you found the problem.

One of the things users fail to recognize is that not all parameters are the same.  Apples are equal to Apples as long as they come from the same parameter definition.  The name doesn't tell the whole story.  System templates contain the same parameter definitions.

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MrMcPike

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WW,

this leads me to a question.  now that i know i need to update my families to a 2012 family template, how can i copy/paste the families from one to another and still have it pull all the types with their associated parameters etc.? i cant simply "update" the family from 2011 to 2012, it wont work...

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You should not typically ever have to create new families in a new release.  The families typically always update automatically.

MEP families have lots of functional parameters that architecture does not have.  That's why AutoDESK might put some new functionality in a particular family that was not in a previous release.  If that ever happens, you should be able to export that parameter from the new template to a shared parameter file then you can bring that into your old family and start using it.  << That may have been your problem here.

Read more in your help under this topic >> " Exporting Shared Parameters to a Shared Parameter File "

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MrMcPike

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thats great, i will try this next.

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