Reporting Perforator Sizes?

One long-standing problem we have is the severe disconnect between the Compound Cells (PCS is too difficult, unpopular and has been in maintenance mode for more than half a decade?) we use for doors and the size of the door, as reported..

With the PCS paz doors, when a width/height parameter is changed, the door changes to suit. If the size is changed via the HUD dimensions, the size is updated in the Modify Element / Property panels accordingly. The sizes would also schedule properly.

With the doors as Compound Cells, you can change the width/height paramters without propagating the changes to the door object/geometry and vice versa. To make things worse, everything is presented to the user in the dialogs/ schedules as if the parameters were reporting correctly.

I wonder if there isn't a way to utilise the Family & Part's Components functionality to provide a 'reporting parameter' to be inserted / displayed in the Datagroup system?

1. Define Part for the Perforator; with Components to report the Height and Width.
2. User assigns the Perforator Part to the Perforator Shape defined as part of the Compound Cell creation process.
3. User adds the Width and Height properties to the Catalog Type, assigns F&P: Component Name in the Parameter column.
4. When the Compound Cell door is placed / modified / scheduled, the corresponding tool calls the F&P code to extract the properties and updates the corresponding properties. Thereby ensuring that the correct door sizes are reported.

In theory, the F&P system could be used to report the dimensional properties of any element within the Compound Cell. Hopefully, a relatively quick coding exercise. Presumably, the F&P Component stuff is old and mature code and its just a question of wrappers or what not?