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chowlowhammond

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Mayday.  We have a 2 serious problems here.

1.  We have a group that consists of 3 or 4 "modeled-in-place components"...  Whenever this group is mirrored, one of said components moves within the group, leaving me with group instances that are not identical!  I'm then forced to ungroup everything - then move the rogue component back into it's rightful position - losing all benefits of grouping in the first place.  Maddening.

2.  This same group causes me even bigger problems when synchronizing with central.  Some of the components within the group, decide to randomly rotate - again, leaving me with instances that are different from the rest.  I'm then forced to fix every single one of these mishaps.   This has happened more than once, & I know that it is not a result of a someone else messing with the model.  I now break into a cold sweat whenever synchronizing with central.  Disastrous.

I've wasted at least 2 days spinning my wheels with this group.  I've even resorted to remodelling the entire group, but the problems persist.  I fear that this is not something that can be fixed.  This sounds more like the usual tripe we've come to expect from Autodesk.  Between this & the horrible flickering/twitching that Revit does on my 64bit machine, it's been enough to make me consider changing careers.

Help.

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chowlowhammond

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I forgot to mention.  I'm using:

Revit Architecture 2010 (64bit)

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DTCesarz

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I've had the same problem and have gotten around it by rotating groups I need to mirror...  Which I understand doesn't work in every scenario. HTH 

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KingRevit

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This is a common problem.

Move your modled in place components to a prober family then reload them.

You should try to NEVER use in place components. 

Modle in place is basically for a one off piece that will not be copied, rotated, moved or placed in a group.

I know this is not the answer you want but it is the correct one.  

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Modeled in place elements should be limited to an in-place position.  These are really meant for one of a kind elements and probably never should be in a group.  That is what regular families are for.

As far as mirroring and groups.  That was a problem in the past with some families... I don't know if it still is.  I prefer to make a new group for left/right locations instead of mirroring a group.

Sorry King didn't mean to repeat your post .... I had started my reply before you posted and got involved in work.

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