Custom Fabrication Tap

[effimero89]

We made a family that is a square to round tap

See Here: https://imgur.com/QvxCG4T

When I convert the tap with fabrication in Revit it uses the round shoe tap.

See Here: https://imgur.com/a/PFVJw

Is there a way to make the square to round tap a fabrication part? I've made custom parts before but I am not having any luck making this one. I'm curious if I'm missing something here.

I don't really have a workaround because when the square duct that it's connected to is converted it automatically converts the tap to the shoe tap.

Are there additional resources I can download from somewhere else that adds more fabrication parts? Because I'm not aware of any way to make your own parts.

Thanks

[Admin]

I'm just curious as to why you wouldn't use the round shoe?
It is the correct fitting for round duct and best for air flow direction.

Could the custom tap you require not be achieved by using a rectangular to round transition (CID#8)?

[Darren Young]

Designline configuration in the Fabrication software is what controls the conversion of Generic Revit Families to Fabrication parts. You'd need to configure Design Line to pull in the part you want.

[alsadoon]

Not sure what the steps
Did you load fabrications cad mep in revit
Is the object you made based on CID or graphic wrap
Did you SAVEDATABASETODISK so revit can read it
If you tell us ur steps some one will pick it up

[effimero89]

I'm just curious as to why you wouldn't use the round shoe?
It is the correct fitting for round duct and best for air flow direction.

Could the custom tap you require not be achieved by using a rectangular to round transition (CID#8)?

Its just what our industry uses. Its isnt a huge deal because the round shoe can be used for drawings but managers are.... "picky" when it comes to doing walks throughs.

I thought about the #8 pattern but it deosnt have the slant like the tap does. But I may be able to mess with that part and have better luck.

[effimero89]

Not sure what the steps
Did you load fabrications cad mep in revit
Is the object you made based on CID or graphic wrap
Did you SAVEDATABASETODISK so revit can read it
If you tell us ur steps some one will pick it up

Yea our designers have a custom database that I use as well. So I'm loading it into revit and converting models with it to then go in CAMduct. I haven't made any object yet. That was my question. If I could make this revit family into a fabrication object. Picture one shows the revit family while picture two show the incorrect conversion.

I was just curious if what I was doing was possible or not.

[alsadoon]

Best way to use fab database to create new object and you can loaded it in revit without converting  to DL  make sure it cid supported in revit reason is that autocad use double precision power in gpu when revit use single so when you do cutting list you can control how accurate you wanted in autocad revit is great to manage loads of polygons count not so great in accuracy. So you get best of two worlds