PIT in the palm of my hand (families, shared parameters, schedules, tags)

Hey. It's already September 2017. The year's almost gone... and so is another birthday.

This time, as the title says, let's get PIT into the palm of our hand.

On a job site, there are times you just want pits to be easier to manage. I don't know how everyone else does it.

I want to share the way I manage them.

I will make a family that is easy to manage, apply shared parameters, connect it to a schedule, and tag it as well.

(Note: you can download the sample files at the bottom.)

What I want is to use shared parameters so that the PIT size, schedule, and tag stay linked.

It ends up like this.

The information I want to manage is:

Let's make the family first.

I had a video from an older study session, so I edited that. Unfortunately the sound was not recorded.

The PIT family is done.

Now let's apply shared parameters.

Top Level is given on site. Think of it as the reference level for that floor.

Here, Top Level and Invert Level both come from site, so I built the family so the model updates when those two values are entered.

Enter Shared_T.L and Shared_I.L, and Shared_Depth is calculated with this formula:

[Shared_Depth = Shared_T.L - Shared_I.L + Offset fr I.L]

If you want a different driver, you can adapt this.

The reason for shared parameters is so the project file can schedule and tag them.

Now let's make a schedule.

Because the schedule uses shared parameters, changing a value in the schedule updates the model, and changing the model updates the schedule.

Now tagging.

Now the tag, the schedule, and the model stay linked and update on their own.

Managing pits this way has several advantages.

Closing.

If you adapt this, you can use it for more than pits.

Let's go!

Update: I am uploading sample files. Use them freely if you want to study.

Sample files: Download

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