The BIM Data is a new blog by Mohammed Mahboob. In a recent post, he describes using a Pipe Fittings family template and switching it to Generic Model to enable (retain) the Lookup Table CSV support.
Read the whole post at http://thebimdata.blogspot.ae/2013/08/loop-in-lookup-table-name-parameter.html
Good workaround!
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The BIM Data