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    Question Placement of Wall based Mechanical Equipment

    I had created a wall base Mechanical equipment which I want to place on wall of Linked Architecture Model.But I am not able to place on a linked file,if I model a architecture a wall within a file then it's working fine.

    Is there any way to place a equipment on a wall of linked file???

    Thanks in Advance.

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    Default Re: Placement of Wall based Mechanical Equipment

    You can't use the wall hosted family on linked walls.

    You have 3 options.
    1) create a new family
    2) create a wall in your file and hide it
    3) I've heard people having success nesting the family into another hosted family.

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    Default Re: Placement of Wall based Mechanical Equipment

    I never use wall, floor, ceiling based families.
    There are too many issues with those. Adesk had good intentions, but lousy execution.
    I would start using plane or face based.
    Element hosted objects look at the element ID of the host. If the Arch changes the element ID... you get the picture.

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    Default Re: Placement of Wall based Mechanical Equipment

    @ mgleason

    I think the first option will be fine.I also heard about nested families but never tried.

    @Jrobker
    You are right. Use of face base and work plane base families will be the better option.

    Thanks a lot.

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