Scheduling Shared Families - Autodesk 24000-000000-9860 - Revit Architecture - PC User Manual

Selecting sub-instances of a shared family
If you select a sub-instance, you can do the following:
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Modify type properties. When you do this, all instances of that type also update to reflect the changes.
If you select a sub-instance, you cannot do the following:
Select and delete a sub-instance.
Mirror, copy, move, or array a sub-instance.
If you do this, the entire host family adapts, not just the sub-instance.
Modify the position, the size, or shape of a sub-instance.
The biggest advantage to using shared families is the ability to schedule shared families as individual instances.

Scheduling Shared Families

A nested family comprised of shared family sub-components allows each sub-component to be scheduled
separately. This is in contrast to a simple nested family where none of the nested elements are shared.
Non-shared nested families schedule as one instance; with shared families, each sub-component is scheduled
as an individual instance. Within the schedule, you can renumber each sub-instance.
and in the Element Properties dialog, modify some instance properties, such as Mark and
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