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gdamico

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I'm trying to understand how to work with families.  I thought I'd make a new window family as a test to see if I could model a current window design.  So I started with a new window family and made a basic frame with a sweep command, and a basic sash with a sweep command.  When the window is entered these apear where they should.  However when I added some muntins they would not stay where they were suppose to.  I solid mass modeled them in the same plan as the sash, but when I put the window in the wall, the sash and frame went where they were suppose to and the muntins floated out from the frame and sash.  I noticed that as I changed the depth of the wall, they floated at different distances away from the sash.

 What am I doing wrong.  We've had the basic trainning at out office but we didn't get into this.

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Typhoon

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It's because you must constrain the elements, create Ref. Planes, create dimensions and add parameters for theres, then create the muntins and the rest of the family...

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