When making a model it is very easy and fast to mirror a family (for example a window). However when doing the documenting of those windows there is no way of documenting that a windows is actually mirrored. This means that you have to create another window that is exactly the same only mirrored, which could be a bit time consuming if there are a lot of difficult windows (or any other family for that matter) in your project.
Not sure if this happens a lot in other countries as well, but in Holland for example we build a lot of rows of homes or apartments that are mirrored over a grid line over and over again. This means that everything in that home or apartment is flipped from one home to the other and for fabrication purposes is a different object and will need to be fabricated differently.
It would be great if some how there was a way for Revit to know if a family is flipped or mirrored from the way it was originally modeled and be available as a parameter in the family and schedule. Just a report parameter called Flipped with a Yes/No option would do the trick already.
It would be even better if there was a way of creating a legend view where you can choose the 'regular' of mirrored family when placing it
- Generic Model: Family1
- Generic Model: Family1 (mirrored)
In the end I would like a schedule that tells me I have 5 windows of type A.01 and another 5 windows of type A.01 that are flipped.
So in short, a way for Revit to know if a family is mirrored and be able to use and document that trough the entire project and each function of Revit.