Shared Parameter Standards – Part 1

Revit adoption keeps on growing. There is no denying the benefits of having an integrated project model that holds all related information. But as more and more companies move from using Revit solely for coordination to using it as a project tool encompassing all disciplines, the level of information management required from the application continues to grow as well.

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Offset Parameters for Plan Symbols – Part 2

This is a follow-up to a previous post about creating an offset parameter to shift a symbol up or down when faced with overlapping symbols in plan view. In the comments, both Jay and Julian mentioned that offsetting the symbols left and right would be preferable to just having the symbols offset vertically. To do this, we only need to make a minor change to the nested family containing the symbol, which will give us the result shown here.

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