Hello all,
I had a weird thing happen this morning and was wondering if anybody else has had this happen to them? I have a condo project that has approximately 3 different types of units that will be part of 7 different buildings. After much research on the best way to handle the project I determined that using groups for the individual units would be the best method to model the actual buildings. I started by just grouping the walls then copied the original group then mirrored, and rotated as necessary to build the buildings all the while leaving the original group in its original location. After the buildings were created and laid out per the site plan I started to add the additional elements such as doors and windows, stairs, framing members, etc. Had many hurdles to jump over while doing this which was made easier because others had cleared similar hurdles and shared their experiences on getting over them.
The one issue I never came across in my research was framing members offsetting there location. What happened is I placed some 2x4 members for a small section of roof framing that bear on top of a beam at one end and a wall ledger at the other end. This was done outside of the group editor mode and at the original model group instance for one of the units. Once they were placed I then went into group editor mode for the original model group of the unit and began adding them into the group. After saving the changes and allowing the changes to populate to the other instances of the unit model group, all of the 2x4 members were offset from their group origin location in the updated unit model groups while the original model group that I have been using to make the changes to the unit remained in the correct location. The only error message I received was about the members not being able to retain the join association to the wall ledger and the beam, to which I was able to ignore. I was able to correct it by going to one of the units model group that has been placed in the actual building location, enter group edit mode and move them over to the correct location, which was about 30'. After saving the changes the other units were updated correctly and it appears that the original model group that I was using for editing was unchanged. Have you had something similar happen? Any thoughts on what would cause this behavior?
Sincerely,
Kyle