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We are building lighting fixture files with nested families so that they can be tilted. When we add masking regions in our host files, they cannot tilt. When we put them in our nested files, they do not show up when we insert our host file into a project file. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks,
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Whatcha masking
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We are creating lighting fixture families. All the instructions I've read, and Seek guidelines require that we make the actual 3D models of our lighting fixtures invisible in R/L, F/B, and Ref. views, replacing them with masking regions, looking like drafting symbols in these views. We are masking anything below or on the wall behind the lighting fixture. Perhaps I am misunderstanding the guidelines?
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this might be semantics but are the masking regions not showing up and therefore you can see the 3-d geometry or are the masking regions not showing up and therefore you can't see the lines around the edges of the masking regions? or? -aaron
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You can't see the 3D geometry in any view except 3D, because it is turned off in the visibility settings. You should only see the masking areas in R/L, F/B, and Ref. views, but you can see nothing at all when masking regions are in nested file instead of host file. You can see the masking areas fine when they are made in the host file, but I cannot get them to work properly with the tilt parameter that we have build into the host file unless they come in via nested file.
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I got something to nest, tilt and mask, but without knowing what function you want it may be completely off target.
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Okay, I think that my colleague solved the problem. I had initially nested a file without masking regions included. I then went back and made the masking regions, saved the nested file and re-loaded into the host family. Apparently, I needed to delete the old nested file and re-import it to make the masking regions work. Sounds crazy, but it seems to work. Thank you for trying to help.
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