From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Drive family parameters with a dropdown list

Drive family parameters with a dropdown list

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Drive family parameters with a dropdown list

- [Instructor] When creating content, I often find myself in a situation where I'd like to be able to provide a list of choices for the end user to be able to select from. So there's a process that we can follow to make that happen. It's a fairly lengthy process, and so I want to demonstrate that here with this very simple shower family that I have here on screen. So I've got a 3D view on the left, and I've got a plan view on the right, and I've just simply tiled those, and I've got this single shower head currently inserted in the file. I'll click over here in the floor plan view, select that shower head, and I'll click Create Similar. That'll bring in another instance of the shower head. I'll tap the Spacebar to rotate it 90 degrees. Place it over her on the left. Tap the Spacebar twice more to rotate it around again, and place it over here on the right. Click the Modify tool to cancel the command, and then I want to make sure that those don't move when we flex the family, so I'll…

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