{"id":1056,"date":"2011-11-25T13:10:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T21:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andekan.com\/blog\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2016-04-28T17:48:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T17:48:27","slug":"family-feedback-mechanisms-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andekan.com\/blog\/family-feedback-mechanisms-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Feedback Mechanisms – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wouldn’t it be nice if your manufacturer-specific fittings would highlight themselves if they are set outside of the product’s catalog specs? Wouldn’t it be even nicer if they were highlighted without stopping your workflow as you lay your pipe runs? Then your manufacturer-specific fittings could even be used as generic or custom fittings as well. <\/p>\n

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Well I’m happy to report that you can have your cake and eat it too. The above image shows a pipe fitting family (an elbow in this example) that, when used in a project, will get highlighted in red if the angle of the elbow is different than either 45 or 90 (the two angles provided by the manufacturer). Not only that, it will also show you a non-modal dialog<\/a> warning as you draw. But wait, it gets better! There is no plugin, hack or workaround. This is a built-in feature in Revit. The below video shows this feature in action.<\/p>\n