dRofus Panel Family Instances Introduction

Within the dRofus Ribbon, select the "Show panel" button to activate the dRofus Panel:

A movable / dock-able dRofus Panel will then appear as follows:

Select a Revit Family Instance (the Family Type of which has already been linked to a corresponding dRofus Item Type + the Instance of which has already been linked to a corresponding dRofus Item Occurrence), and the dRofus Panel will then display all the dRofus Item Occurrence's Instance attributes as follows:

Depending on the active / default Occurrence <-> Revit Instance Configuration, you will note that there may appear arrows next to some of the Instance attributes.

In this example, a Configuration called "Revit Family Instances - Update" has been applicable. If you click on this Configuration, and then (within the Attribute Configuration Settings dialog, click on "Edit" against the Occurrence <-> Revit Instance Configuration called "Revit Family Instances - Update", you will note (within the Instance/Occurrence Data Attribute Configuration Editor dialog) that:

dRofus' Item Occurrence attribute (1) has been mapped such that it's values are to get pushed in to a Revit's Family Instance parameter, hence the arrow within the dRofus Panel is orange in colour and points to the right
dRofus' Item Occurrence attribute (1) has been mapped such that it's values are to get pulled from a Revit's Family Instance parameter, hence the arrow within the dRofus Panel is blue in colour and points to the left

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If you (on the other hand) select a Revit Family Instance (the Family Type of which has not already been linked to a corresponding dRofus Item Type), the dRofus Panel will then display the following message and you are able to Enable category and link to dRofus from here as follows:

Also, if you select a Revit Family Instance (the Family Type of which has already been linked to a corresponding dRofus Item Type, but the very Instance has not already been linked to a corresponding dRofus Item Occurrence), the dRofus Panel will then display only some of the dRofus Item's Item Core attributes, with the option to Open Item as follows:

For information about the following icons within the dRofus Panel for Family Instances, refer to: dRofus Panel Family Instances Action Icons:

For information on data exchange between dRofus Item Occurrences and Revit Family Instances, refer to: dRofus Panel Family Instances Updating Data.