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NKramer

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Is there a way to have a parameter in a family read if it gets flipped?

I would like to be able to read out the hand of a cabinet (i.e.the cabinet is drawn with a right hand opening and the parameter would read 03, if flipped the parameter, or its output, would read 02).

Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appriciated.

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THats kind of what I thought. I am trying to put together a set of Fisher Hamilton cabinets that generate out the product number automatically without the chance for user error. I have everything else down but wanted to try to find a way to make the hand update aitomatically.....

Oh well I guess it goes on the wish list. I'll also try asking Steve Stafford when he comes by at the end of the month.... 

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I don't believe this is possible for the same reasons that you can't do it with doors...  I would suggest not including a flip arrow in the family and creating a mirrored version that has the correct code already if you want to reduce user error.

 However, that still doesn't stop someone just mirror the family in the project.

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Thats kinda what I was thinking. So I added the mirriored door to the family, but is there a way that you can tell if the family has been flipped? In CAD you can look at the properties and the X or Y axis will read -1, but I cant seem to find this in Revit. Is it there, if so where do I look?

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I've run into this problem to and I have not found a way to detect if the family has been flipped. 

I suppose you could create a text type of symbol using invisible lines that you could see is mirrored when you select the family.  But otherwise, it won't show up.

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