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thetabest

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I need to figure out how to make a "rolling kick" as the guys in my company call it.  What this is:  Place a conduit at a given elevation, say 4'.  Copy this conduit to a new height, say 0', then move it some distance in the x and y direction.  What I need is to now be able to connect these two conduits with a conduit which takes the minimum path between (a straight line).

I've tried this over and over, but I can't let revit do it automatically, because it wants to drop down the 4' then path in a diagonal to the other conduit.  It seems that I struggle with Revit whenever I try to create something which changes in all 3 axis.

I'll post a dwg for further clarification once I get my hands on one...

Thanks,

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Trent Best

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mbsteve

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trent,

Try creating a work plane through the centerlines of the conduits, name the workplane and then you can create a view using the framing view. then you can work in that plane. to create your connections.

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thetabest

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Beautiful, slight adjustment to your process, had to make a grid line instead of a work plane (so that the framing view could snap to the grid).  But then it worked!

THANKS!

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mbsteve

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If you name the workplane the framing view will snap to it. If you do not name the view it is ignored by the framing view.

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