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    Default Can I nest a family into a curtain panel family?

    I'm wanting to create a curtain panel door family for a French door. I'm wanting the number of horizontal and vertical muntins to be adjustable.

    Now I have a window family with an adjustable integer parameter for the number of muntins, and those muntins are a nested family, which is made of 2 more nested families (horizontal and vertical arrays), each of which are made with another nested family (the muntin by itself).

    So I loaded the Muntin Pattern family into my curtain panel family, but I did not have the parameters available for controlling the number of muntins.

    I tried loading the Muntin Pattern family into a regular door family, and I also did not have the parameters available from the Muntin Pattern family in the door family. I checked the Muntin Pattern's family category, and it was set to Windows. I changed it to Door and reloaded it, but it still didn't work.

    I don't have much experience with nested parameters. Can anyone help?

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    Default Re: Can I nest a family into a curtain panel family?

    Load and then place the window panel into your empty curtain panel family...
    Select the placed panel and go to element properties...
    The little grey box at the far right of your parameters is for linking the parameters of the nested family to those in the host family.
    If no compatible parameters are present in the host family click on the Add Parameter button.

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    Default Re: Can I nest a family into a curtain panel family?

    Yea I figured out that I had to first create the parameter in the host family, and then link the type parameter of the nested family instance to the parameter in the host family.

    I just had to add and change parameters for probably 5 or 6 nested and sub-nested families to make this curtain panel door, just to be able to specify the number of horizontal and vertical lites on a French door.

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