When creating some families within Revit, Revit will add its own family parameters that you cannot remove from the family.  In door families for example Revit will add a Thickness, Height and Width.  I have my own shared parameters for those items and I do not want to confuse users of the family with those parameters.

Since I can't get rid of them, I settled on getting them to ghost out by adding either a calculation or conditional formula to those fields.  If I add a conditional formula for example that that evaluates if Door Thickness * 2 > Door Thickness I will know that result is always true.  So the formula I use is IF (Door Thickness*2>Door Thickness,Door Thickness, Door Thickness) This will result in the Revit standard parameter of Thickness always having the value of' Door Thickness' and be ghosted out in the family so that the user is not confused by it.

Until Revit provides a way to hide or otherwise control what parameters are exposed to the user, this is the best method I could come up with to address the problem.

Hope this helps you out.

 

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