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Hello, I have downloaded some fire extinguisher families from this site as well as Autodesk Seek. They are in my fire protection folder of my library. But when I load them in, I get a "no" symbol indicating the family cannot be placed anywhere. I am on RME2009 on a 64bit machine running XP. Hope someone's had success with this. Thanks
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It may be a hosted family. Check to see if it asking you to place it on a face or work plane.
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yup, it's hosted and it won't let me place it on a wall either.
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Are you trying to put it on your wall, or a linked wall? Can you place it in another view type?
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Kool - Are you placing from a plan view? You should be able to place wall or wall face hosted from a plan view. You can not place them from an elevation view.
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Yes, I'm doing it from plan view onto a linked wall, which normally isn't a problem (I've got wall hosted siamese connections and they work).
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Wall hosted elements will not place on a linked wall. You have to have face based.
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however, you can copy/ monitor the linked wall and host to it.
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If I copy/monitor the linked wall, will I get problems in future revisions in the arch model? How will it affect the speed of moving through the model? I ask simply because in my plumbing model, all the sanitary was connected into one gigantic system and thus the speed was extremely slow. So I just disconnected all the fixtures from it's drain pipe and now I have a gigantic network of pipes, but the calculations are not being re-done over and over, so the model is very fast. I am hoping this copy/monitor won't bring back the old problems. But it sounds like a cool idea. I will think about it while waiting for some feedback on the above concern. Hope to hear! Joe
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You can copy a wall from the Arch model and Not monitor it. I try not to monitor too many things in the Arch model, just levels and grids. I would think things might slow down the more you monitor. You will have no way of knowing if that wall was moved or even deleted without monitoring though. But I'm sure, like the Architects I work with, they will tell you everything that was updated in their model ( heavy sarcasim) When you copy a wall, check out the options and select 'copy original type' that way you won't get a generic wall in its place.
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