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    what is up with flip controls. I am working on a door family, and I want the door to flip about a certain ref plane, so that is stays anchored in masonry. the door is going into a furred wall with 7-5/8" masonry and 6-5/8" furring and substrate. I want the door to stay in the masonry no matter if it swinging in or out of a room. how do you define the boundary for a flip control in a family?

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    Default Re: Flip Controls... WTF

    How many walls is going on here.....and which wall is the Door hosted to?

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    it is one wall. see the image along with the post. The masonry is along the outside portion of wall, and the furring is along the inside portion of the wall. Basically, I want my frame to stay anchored in the masonry, but still swing to the inside.
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    Default Re: Flip Controls... WTF

    the easy solution would be to create a new reference plane and tie an 'offset' parameter to it which would allow you to move the frame back and forth in the opening.

    thinking out loud here.....you can lock your geometry to the internal components of a wall, e.g. core boundary (or your masonry), however, the family may break if inserted into a wall which does not have a similar composition.

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    Default Re: Flip Controls... WTF

    Quote Originally Posted by azmz3 View Post
    it is one wall. see the image along with the post. The masonry is along the outside portion of wall, and the furring is along the inside portion of the wall. Basically, I want my frame to stay anchored in the masonry, but still swing to the inside.
    The issue is that the flip controls within a family, flip it around the reference planes in the family, that define the insertion point of the family. Look intoi what reference planes are set to define the insertion point inside the family.

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    Default Re: Flip Controls... WTF

    I have checked the reference planes in the family. it is flipping it about the center of the wall it is placed into though. it seems like ref planes in the family, dont really affect how the door is flipped. I posted the family so someone can take a look at tell me what I am doing wrong.
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