Revit family Instance-Property "Stretching" stops working

[Duncan Lithgow]

It was specifically happening with the Rotate grip. What would happen for example, if I had a workset called "Workset 1" and it was hidden (globally or overridden) in the view, the Rotate grip would be invisible.

A rotate grip? Do you have a family where you can rotate a part of it like the hands on a clock? I'd love to have a look at that - I haven't worked out how to do that yet. Links, guides, etc welcome... !

[jj mac]

Sorry Duncan, I just meant the rotate icon, but I always call it the rotate "Grip"... You know, the one that pops up when you hit Rotate? You can move it around to place it where you want your axis of rotation to be? No special family.

[Duncan Lithgow]

Bummer. I was getting excited ...

[Rosie the Reviter]

Hello all-

Picking up where I left off, houck has it exactly right. A basic mass in a family, that is assigned an instance parameter, that has grips allowing you to pull and stretch the family ...... it very literally just stops working. Sometimes rebooting helped. Trick here is that it is hard to replicate the issue unless you are working ALL day on revit. So never really found the reason to the issue. But I agree with houck, it's most likely a memory issue.

I have only been working in 2012, so I don't know if this issue was resolved in 2013.. one can only hope by 2014 all will be swell.. (famous last words).

Thanks for input!

[Alfredo Medina]

... I think everyone got off track here. If you read her post, the mass stretching works for a while then just stops. ...

..., houck has it exactly right. A basic mass in a family, that is assigned an instance parameter, ....

Where in the original post did anybody mention a mass? As far I understood, it was a radiant ceiling based-panel. This one can "fail' for some of the reasons that were mentioned in the previous posts. For a mass, it is different. Suppose that In a 3d view the section box is active but hidden; any mass that is stretched by pull handles beyond the faces of the section box, will seem to "lose" the ability to stretch by pull handles, and even lose the pull handles at all. If the section box is deactivated or enlarged, now the mass will be displayed as expected. Any part of the mass, including the pull handles, that was outside the box, was invisible when the section box was active or when it was too small to enclose the mass entirely.

[Rosie the Reviter]

Alfredo, you are right, it is a family, not a mass. I was using the word "mass" instead of extrusion, or form that is made in a family... I get that that would be confusing.

Again, this issue isn't an "every-time" I use the family problem. It only occurred after having Revit open for a long time, and having used the family often in the project, so de-engineering the family and trying to get it to break that way doesn't work. The problem does happen with multiple different families, some ceiling hosted some wall hosted. Also, the parameters that break are stretching length/width, no radius etc. Grips don't disappear or gray-out, very literally they just stop working.

Even now I can't recreate the issue, meh I'm over it. Thanks all for input, what a great network of people.

[back2b]

When this issue happens just tab select the edge that you want to select to get hold of the Reference Plane and then drag to to where you need it to go to.
Not ideal, but you get over that bug.