I've been using Revit Schedules all WRONG!

I've been using Revit schedule for years to read data from my model. I had NO idea that a schedule could WRITE data to a family! Turns out there's a single button that lets you push parameters into certain families so that you don't have to worry about if they can be scheduled or not!

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[banebotic]

Thanks for mentioning my comment. It's very efficient way to speed up your workflow, but these days in my company we are using Sticky add-on for importing Excel spreadsheets (luminaire schedule, motorlist, etc).

[ThatBIMGuy]

This may be a good workflow for Lighting Fixture families, but these parameters are created and added to your project as Project Parameters. When it comes to Mechanical Equipment or other categories that can have many different Schedules, this workflow would add all these parameters to every family even if they are not needed which in turn bloats the project/families. There are tools that can push parameters to families without checking this box. What about parameters that have the same name but have a different GUID?

[anatli]

Great tip.
Will definitely use in my schedules.
Thanks and keep posting.

[brianmaldonado]

Interesting....this is good to know. Especially for Lighting Schedules. I wonder which Revit version this was added in?? Thanks for this tip!

[mirolehtimaki]

Im basically doing the same with just project parameters so when ever i get new family it will automatically have to those parameters that i use in luminaires lists. What is the benefit of adding them directly to the family?