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Nicolai

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Is it possible to convert a wall based family to a floor based family? Without copying the element from the wall based family to the floor based. 

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There is no way to do this that I know of.  And I doubt that you can copy anything from one family to another.  You will have to build your family from the correct template.

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TKennedy

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You should be able to copy/paste the elements from family to family (make sure both files are open), but you are going to lose all the constraints. If this is a parametric family with more than a few elements it's likely going to take WWHub's suggestion and just start from scratch.

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develocon

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Can I suggest that if the family does not need to cut it's host that you make it an un-hosted family, and if you need to cut it's host you can make it a faced based family, and use the new Cuts with void when inserted feature.

anothe advantage of a face baced family is you can nest it in a wall based, floor based, ceiling based family if you need to, allowing you to quickly make the variations you may need, you just need to map the parameters through.

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Nicolai

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Thanks for the replies. I know I was grasping at straws. I just hoped that there was a new feature I didn’t know.

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