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SVM1Steve

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Good Afternoon, 

I am having a little trouble creating this using the instructions that are on this website, using Revit 2015: http://revitswat.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/alert-egress-path-on-fire/. 

I am trying to create a 6 point family and have attached a copy of the Revit family that I am starting with. I have the adaptive points and the line work correct and when loaded into a project populate and work as they should. The problem that I am facing is getting the Egress Start Dot and Finish Arrow to show up and be able to lock to the correct positions. I created a start dot in a separate family and loaded into the egress path file. Align and lock the center of the Start Dot to be the intersection of the ref lines in the family editor. When I load this back into the project, the Start Dot will NOT stay at the first position. The arrow I cannot get to work at all and need some serious walk through on these if you could. It is probably something simple that I am not doing or doing wrong I just cannot find anything online to assist me in creating this. If you could please provide a little more instruction it would be greatly appreciated! The Alert I haven’t even gotten to at this point, but I’m sure that it would follow the same principles as the Start Dot and Arrow, so should be able to get this once I know what I need to do.

PS. I personally like this style vs the other one floating on the message boards,  with the individual segments that reports each segment separately, and really want to be able to figure this out. 

Thanks in advance for your help! 

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pijpiwo

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Start/end geometry needs to be placed on the point’s ref planes. Also, start/end families need to be placed on their point’s ref planes. Reverse engineer enclosed file. Hope it helps.

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SVM1Steve

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Pij...

Thanks for the reply and the file. How did you get the alignment to lock for the start and end? I have gone into the 3d view and tried aligning the adaptive points to the ref planes (I cannot actually see the small planes in the start dot when inserted into family) thanks again for the help!

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pijpiwo

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Perhaps this screencast will help. The circle (start) is done the same way - make the point's (#1) horizontal plane current though.

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WWHub

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We sometimes use a family we found on-line several years ago and it works well.  See attached.

This family is a simple line based - no adaptive components.

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pijpiwo

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Yes, Steve Stafford's solution - I like it too, but I think the OP likes the adaptive option the best (as he mentioned).

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WWHub

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I don't see any advantage on the adaptive component.   As you can see, each individual section reports (see schedule) and the family seems to function the same.

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SVM1Steve

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This is the one that i do not like. We have no need to report the individual segments nor have those populate into a schedule. We simply need to show egress and max travel distance not to exceede blah-blah-blah baised on occupancy. Plus this is the one that i did mention i was not interested in. Thanks though

Yes that is exactly what i was looking for. Thanks!

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WWHub

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This system reports as well..... Just use a tag for each section.

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SVM1Steve

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that is what i dont want to have to do. I am trying to make it "dummy proof"

cant get much simplier then pick desired number of points - read total distance in prop window ... i dont want ppl adding numbers or worrying about another schedule ... 

I got what i needed. thanks

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