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RainaMc

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Hello all

Working in Revit 2010.  I am building an in place family with various extrusions and sweeps.  I have redone and rebuilt it in several different ways and just when I have it built exactly like I want it and hit FINISH MODEL it gives me the "Elements can't be copied because they will lose their References." Error message.  I have rebuilt it 3 times making sure to not copy any extrusions or sweeps.  I also notice it is highlighting a wall sweep in the model not with in the in place family when it is giving me this error message.  What am I doing wrong?  I just don't get it.  If anyone has any information for me or knows why Revit does this and how I can avoid this please let me know.

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Hi Raina... well if you attach something in the Create in-place family with "Something" in the Wall, or whatever, you have that kind of error but try this (I don't have Revit Here) create a "Group" with that family and try to copy that Group....

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RainaMc

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Hello Typhoon.

I have an extrusion with a sweep on top and then another sweep on that.  Then I have joined geometry on the sweeps and extrusions and all of this is on a wall  Is that what you mean by attach?  Grouping and copying won't do because each item is similar but not identical.  I stopped copying and revising the sweeps and extrusions and just doing each one idividually but still the same error was occuring yesterday. 

I am currently going back through the in place family and adding one peice and doing it one step at a time to see when the error occurs and today no error so far.  I just don't understand where it is going wrong.  I am going to keep on building it back to the point I was at yesterday and see if it will work.  Is it possible I am trying to put to much stuff in one family.

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bcnuckelt

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I had the same problem and finaly realised the issue was with using the face of a sweep as the reference plane. You can basically  select any other face (or make a new workplane) except a sweep and it'll work fine. Just hit undo until you get back to the sweep profile, and select another surface parallel to the original plane. 

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