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I made a few families, an IT server rack, and a simple 2x4 plywood board. I load them in to my project, but cant get them onto the drawings, all that shows up, in all views, is a cirlce with a diagonal line thru it. I want to host it to a wall, or eve just floor. I know I made the 2x4 wall based, but the rack I think I made floor based, both generic style. I made a patch panel, and inserted it into the family of the server rack with no problem. I cant place the server rack or the 2x4 into the project, even tho thay are loaded. What am I doing wrong, and how do I know what template to use when making the familiy? The project has a linked model, but I guess all projects would have a linked model, so I dont know if this info helps or not.
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Wall based objects are inserted from a plan view. When you see the not permitted (circle with a diagional) that means your in the wrong view. Now for another problem. For anything that is hosted, you have to own the host. If the host is in a link - =use copy monitor to get a copy in your file.
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I tried to load it in plan view, and they cant. I dont understand the second part of your response. I dont know what is meant by own the host, but it is a central file I work on, and also from a local copy. it has been set up, and worked on, without issues in regards to using other families. It seems the only problems are with the families I am making and trying to insert.
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You say you have a linked model...When you have hosed items like doors or plumbing fixtures ... or ... that are hosted by a floor or wall, the host must reside in the model - not a link. Face based families will host to the face of linked model elements. Without seeing the family, there is not much else we can do.
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Here are the two families I made. Can you tell me if anything is wrong the way I made them? Typically, I will always be working on linked models. that being the case, what is the standard base type I should use when creating families?
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You could have checked these out for yourself. You did exactly what I said you could not do for linked models. Your server is floor hosted and your plywood is wall hosted. FOR LINKED MODELS, either copy the hosts into your project or use face based objects.
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Thanks for the help, and remember that I made these prior to asking for help after I found out they wont insert. I will always be working on linked models, so, for my typical needs, will I always need to use face based templates? Will face based templates work for walls, floors, and ceilings? Will they also work in nested families? Like the server rack, the patch panel is nested within, and it worked however I made it, which was probably face based, but not sure. How can you tell?
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One of the things I don't like about REVIT is there is no apparent way to identiy a host except walls... To test what you did, I started a project - loaded your rack family and tried tried to insert in - no links. It would not place until I added a floor. - So - floor based. I opened your plywood family and the wall is obvious.... Faced based families will not cut their host. Nested families use what is in the host family. There is no way to place a wall hosted family in anything but a wall hosted family.
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I created a new family using generical model face based, and I opened the server cabinet family. I copied the server cabinet into the new family, and it looked the same. When I loaded it into the plan and placed it on the plan, the base of the cabinet only allows me to place it on the wall, not the floor. How do you specify where the base is or if it can be placed on the wall or floor? It also seems that there is only one template file to pick that has "face based" and that is generic. Nothing else has the words "face based". I want a server cabinet to be able to be in the middle of the floor. How do I design it so it does that?
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When you go to place your face based family on the floor in a floor plan view, look at your options bar and pick the face (cube) option. It will always place in a 3d view.
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That worked, thank you.
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