Now you understand how lookup tables are formatted and referenced from Revit families, let’s have a look at how we can improve our workflow.
It’s clear how lookup tables are beneficial to the pipe and conduit modelling process, so how can we use them in other Revit family categories?
Originally lookup tables were only available to pipe and conduit fittings, but we can use them in any family category. We can build fully flexible families that a controlled with lookup tables, we just need to use a bit of common sense when deciding if a lookup table is best suited or not.
Valves would be suited quite well to utilising lookup tables, whereas a VAV box would be more suited to using formulas and other parameters.
Building Your Own Lookup Table
You can use dimensions, angles and integers to both look up and be looked up, the trick to working with integers is that your column header format should follow
ParameterName##number##integer
Using integers can be valuable within lookup tables…