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krushert

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What I am looking for are people that I can pick their brain on how to do this in Revit.   I have done a lot type of work in AutoCAD however this type of project will be my first for Revit (and this would my fifth project for my entire Revit experience)

I being pulled into a possible Environmental Remediation project that they want to use Revit instead of AutoCAD to

• build the model of the current conditions of an existing building 
• then annotate points within the model to indicate locations where samples taken
• Then have those annotations contain parameters contain values that reflects desired information by the scientist;  for example
• Surface ID #
• Sample #
• Location X Y & Z values
• Material of Host that the annotation is connected to.   (I.E. The wall  is constructed of GWB, CMU, Metal Panel,  etc.)
• Export the values of those parameters out to be linked up to environmental database.
• Apply Filters to the Revit Model to visually indicate where work still needs to happen.

Like I said I am trying to see if someone has done anything remotely similar.

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HKicsak

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All of this sounds like it'd be relatively simple to do within Revit. You will need to 'build' custom tags and annotations containing the parameters you want (Surface ID #,Sample #,Location X Y & Z values,Material of Host that the annotation is connected to) but there are plenty of tutorials on family creation, shared parameters, etc. The Revit help file has a lot on this.

Then you can schedule the information and export to Excel.

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Using Revit2014, dragging the rest of the company with me from AutoCAD2008. When will the whining stop?

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Create a generic model, face based family that contains the shared parameters you will be using.  Create a tag that reads those parameters.  Place the family and tag it.

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Okay how do I get a parameter to report the location of the family with in the model?  Much like a spot elevation can show the X, Y, & Z values.  

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Here is a post that discusses how this might have been done but it takes a special app.

http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=20420

You may find some more recent posts on the subject.

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Thanks WWHub.  That help alot. 

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Okay I have not found how to read the Host system parameter so I can schedule it.  Has this been done before?  Can it be done?

Reason is that I could have somewhere up to 1800 instances in the model and I want as much automation as possible.

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