Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Fix Family Not Aligning With Host Wall

Group all elements, then dimension from the group to the reference wall face @ 0'-0" and lock it. Worked for me so far, we will see if this awakens other Revit gremlins.

ISSUE:
I was having problems with a family that contained multiple modeled elements and a nested family within it.
It was not aligning with the finish face of the wall that was hosting it. (It was appearing embedded in the wall.)
On further research I read a recommendation to align and lock one main element to the reference wall face then align or dimension and lock the other elements to that main element. I tried this and had issues with this method, the family was not able to be created and it would delete itself on attempt of placement. I believe I was over constraining the Family.

A helpful and simple description of reference planes which indirectly applies to this topic:
http://architects-desktop.blogspot.com/2012/03/revit-when-is-reference-not-reference.html