Create a key schedule for elements using shared parameters.
This video demonstrates the following:
Key schedules provide a way to quickly add parameter values to elements in your model. For example, you have hardware groups set up to define what door hardware is installed to each door in the model. A hardware group will assign latch function, hardware finish, closer, stop panic hardware, and kickplate values to the door. Placing these parameters into a key schedule allows you to assign the values to the door at one time.
In this example, the hardware parameters have been assigned to the door family as shared parameters. Shared parameters provide more consistency in the naming of hardware parameters across all the models in your office.
Create a key schedule for use with the doors. On the View tab, click Schedules > Schedule/Quantities. Select the Doors category and Schedule keys. Give the key schedule a name and click OK.
Door parameters that can be used in the key schedule are listed. Add the parameters to include in the key schedule. In this example, we will include the Lite_Width parameter to control the window lite in the door as part of the hardware group. Click OK.
In the Hardware Group key schedule, click insert data row to add a key to the schedule. Rows are added for each Hardware group you will have in your model. Use the schedule to set the parameter values for each key.
Assign the key to a door in a view. Select a door, and on the Properties palette, set the hardware group for the door. The values are assigned to the parameters set in the key schedule. An equals symbol is displayed next to the parameters controlled by the key schedule.
If a key is removed from an element, the last values assigned to the parameters are maintained.
Use key schedules to control parameters on elements in your model.