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What I want to have is a way to swap out doors with nested families on some casework I'm making. It works fine as long as nothing needs to change size. The casework I made however is stretchable and thats when the doors start breaking. If I lock the sides of a stretchable panel, from one of the nested families, to refrence lines in the main family, and change the nested family type in the project it gives me errors that it can't create the family(because of the locks.) Basically my question is can you lock a nested family so it can be resized or moved? Is this the correct way to go about doing this? I can provide a file if that was too confusing.
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Hi, yes, you can lock nested families to the main families, and make them work together but... both of them need to be adjustable in order to be compatible with one another, so you need to fix the door so it will stop breaking and then this process should work.
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Hi, you must to have in attention the ref. lines and what do you lock to what... some dimensions with parameters could help when you create the families...
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you need to change nested families with parameters set up in that family. locking to it won't stretch it.
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You can also link parameters from the nested family to the base family. Select the nested family; element properties; select the parameter(s) click onthe ... button and select a parameter from the host family. If none of that works post your family. Nick
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Sorry it took so long to respond. Been working on another project. I got the doors to stop breaking the family. Now the panels won't stay locked to the reference planes. If you switch to a panel type that's not the starting one they seem to go where ever they want. The files are attached. Any help would be appreciated.
Edited on: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:47:02 PM
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"The files are attached." - You forgot to do it....
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Ya it doesn't want to let me put them up. www.cgbuilder.com/Media/paneltest.rar
Edited on: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:52:24 PM
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Hi, test it and tell something...
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You don't create dimension EQ passing the CENTER Ref. Plane (Left/Right) in ref Level, if you see in your original file, you create an aditional ref. plane and you ignore that REF. PLANE, (CENTER-Left/Right/Top/Bottom), if they exist in the family creation is to USE IT....
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The main issue was that I was trying to get the panels to be able to switch types to another nested family. That was when it was becoming unlocked. The panels are under generic models and they are all basically copies of each other but when the family gets swaped, either in the project or the family itself, they lose thier locks.
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I don't know what panels you are swapping but it may be easier to have them all in the family and only show the ones you want at each type location. Type 1 has panel A... Type II has panel B etc. You then just set a visibility switch. The trouble with this approach is that if you use take-offs, each panel will be listed if you are not careful.
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this may give you some more insight into the subject http://revitrants.blogspot.com/2007/09/family-type-parameter-for-swappable.html HTH
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Thanks for all the help. I got it figured out. I wasn't setting my reference planes to left/right/top/bottom in the nested family. Once I did that and locked those to the ref planes in the main family it worked. Thanks again.
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