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wgarchitects

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I have set up a model 90% complete and I just need to tinker a few things here and there and every time I change a wall height or adjust something errors pop up and like dimensions are no longer valid and they must be deleted, I didn’t even move the wall, just changed the wall height for Christ sake…! 

Then I had to adjust the roof thickness, so I dropped the pitching point level to compensate and now Revit wants to ungroup some of my groups as they can no longer remain groups. I was tedious to make sure I made my groups perfect so that I only need to update 1 of 5 types and all 19 would update at once. I do have the option of saving the group in a different name but that defeats the purpose of having all my unit layouts update in one go, and than I have to fix it back the match the others so that are all in unison again. Grrrr!  Autodesk needs to fix this s@%$ up… 

Also to add to the paragraph above, when I chose to add the grouped items as a different name, than after I went to check which ones got change, the ones that got affected didn’t even have any relationship with the roof pitch level, they were on level 3 of a 4 level building….weird!!!!????!!!!

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Most newbies have a lot of trouble with groups.

First they tend to group items that should not be grouped.  Groups are mostly used when you will have more than one instance of the group - not just to lock items together. 

Most of their problems come with locking or pinning everthing they can. 

They also don't understand that when you sketch and you use Pick Lines, there is a Lock option (for some elements) on the Options Bar that locks the picked line to the edge you are picking.  This creates problems with groups ... usually in ceiling sketches.

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