Can't Share a nested family

[JH75]

Hi,
I am trying to create a family to use for sound barriers on plant platforms. At this stage all i want to show is the posts and the girts.
It is a Generic Model family. I have the family working ie i can place it and change number of posts etc.
The problems I have that i am not sure how go about are;
1. I want to be able to tag the posts in the model. The posts are set in a nested family and when I change them to Shared i can’t “map” the parameters in the host family.
2. I don’t seem to be able to array or lock my girts.I have added Parameters to for controlling the top and btm girt and it doesn’t work – am not sure what i did wrong.

Any Suggestions on the above would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
J

[Alex Page]

Quick responce (no time sorry!)
item 1. = the nested component parameters (if shared) need to be changed to instance based only

[JH75]

Thanks mate,

I tried to change the parameters in my nested family ti instance but I still couldn't tag my post. The nested family contains the post and girts. It is then nested into a generic linebased famliy which is using an array.

I will play around with it during the weekend when I have some time

Thanks,

J

[Jmickledesign]

I went into each nested family and made sure that all of them were shared. I believe your original column family is not shared. You then have to go into the bay family and reload the shared column into that family. Make sure to trickle it all down the line then you will have it.

Worked for me with the columns. Didn't try the girts yet.

Good Luck,

[JH75]

Thanks mate,

For some reason it didn’t cross my mind to check the column family within the nested family?????
J

[Jmickledesign]

Glad I could help.

[JH75]

I have had some time to finally look at this again. I got some help here with the array of the girts http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=123840.
The family is almost working as I expect. Ie I can change the number of girts, post size, number of bays.
The only problem I have that some columns in the array doesn’t extend all the way up. I find this a bit strange as they are groups.
See attached image.
Any suggestions to why this happens?
Thanks,
J

[JH75]

Hi,
I changed the columns to a generic family and set the category to columns which solved the problem with the columns not extend properly. I have also added a type catalogue for the girts ie when you load the family you can select size of girts.

Any comments or suggestions are appreciated.

J