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Magic SPs for Rapid Scheduling
Mechanical · Shared Parameters and Schedules · 2m
This lesson teaches you how to efficiently add shared parameters to your Revit schedules under tight deadlines. You'll learn to utilize the Parameter Manager to quickly import and apply shared parameters, allowing for rapid adjustments without compromising on quality.
Specific skills covered include importing shared parameters, creating new columns in schedules, and organizing parameters effectively, all designed to streamline your workflow when time is of the essence.
Transcript
So the very last thing that I wanted to show was you're on a deadline. You've gotta go pick up your kids in a few minutes. You haven't slept, and you're over caffeinated. You need to add some columns. Like, what are you gonna do? Well, we we have some magic to that, literally. So I'm just gonna add another column to this. Let's say that we needed to add some parameters. I don't have time to do it the right way to go in and say, oh, what naming convention does this need to be? You can go into parameter parameter manager, families, select my ducts.
I'm gonna import shared parameters from my shared parameters file, and I'm going to look for magic. And I see that there's magic. So let's say I need three new columns. I'm gonna I don't know why it's not ordering that. That's a little wild. Whatever. It doesn't actually matter. This is just purely arbitrary. So I've I've I've got my three magic parameters. They're all text. Boom. Don't care. Apply. Push them in. Close.
Done. Deactivate. Hop in here, and I can add in my so I want it right before there. So I'm looking for my magic. You spell it right. My magic parameters. Push it in. Okay. And I can say, you know, that this is this is my outside air fan airflow. I do have a parameter for this. This is just all I can think of on short notice, but outside air ESP, outside air RPM, whatever. And I can put those together and group and say outside air fan. Then I can type in what the values are, blah blah blah, and boom. It's done. It looks good.
I don't wanna update this in my warehouse, but for the deadline for the project, I got it done. There is a fast, quick, and dirty way to do this, and, you know, that just took me two seconds. I did that per my calculations in two minutes. So if you need to hustle, you can hustle. But, again, you need to understand what you're doing.