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Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:02:34 AM | Generic Model Face based Template

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Hi, I am new to Revit having migrated from Architectural Desktop 2009. I am trying to create a custom family that I call "Wall Mirror" which will have an instance of a plate glass mirrorthat can be attached to any wall and increased in size once in the model. I have been able to create the family and the mirror, but once in the model I can not change the size of the mirror. Should I be using a different template for this?

I have been able to create an in-place family and put mirrors on the walls, but I would have have a custom family for use in lots of projects. I am using Revit Architecture 2009.

If I may be permitted a second question in the same post - my first attempt at an in-place mirror family resulted in the creation of the family but it's name does not appear in the drop down list of installed family probably because I forgot to give it a name. So I can't reuse it in the model and had to create another with a different name. Anyway to purge the one without the name? When I run the purge command, it doesn't appear in the list.

 I attached the file for the mirror wall instance built with the face based template for reference.

Thanks for your help

Steve

 

 



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Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:31:12 AM | Generic Model Face based Template

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I've added reference planes to your family to show you how to accomplish what you want.  What I added are type based parameters but you could also make them instance based and be able to change the visually.

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Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:35:23 AM | Generic Model Face based Template

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I think that there has to be no instances of a particular family in the project in order for that family to show up in the purge unused list.  You might have to search around for a few stragglers, hopefully they aren't hiding underneath your new mirror families.

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Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:37:00 PM | Generic Model Face based Template

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thank you both for your help.

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