Family Templates, What's the difference?

[cadman6735]

What is the difference between Generic Model face based & Data Device Hosted? for example? Other than Catagory being Generic or Data Device?

Is there any difference between families (except the obviouse wall based, ceiling based, floor based, line based, etc...) other than the Family Catagory and parameters being pre-set before stating the family?

[Scott Womack]

What is the difference between Generic Model face based & Data Device Hosted? for example? Other than Catagory being Generic or Data Device?

Is there any difference between families (except the obviouse wall based, ceiling based, floor based, line based, etc...) other than the Family Catagory and parameters being pre-set before stating the family?

The two you first mentioned are VERY different. A Face-Based type of family can be placed on a wall, a ceiling, a floor, or a counter top. IF the item it is placed on gets deleted it remains. A Hosted family can only be hosted by a single type of object, say a wall hosted object, like a door. IF you delelet the wall, that door is deleted too.

Some catagories of families cannot be shown cut in a section. They always appear in elevation, without nesting a different catagory of family inside of them.

Hosted MEP families cannot be placed in the hosting object of an architectural model which is linked in. A face-based family can be placed on the face of something in a linked file.

[cadman6735]

Scott,

As always, thank you for your post.

Your last statement about Hosted MEP explained it all to me.




Thanks

[patricks]

A Data Device Hosted template should have various connection parameters that are not present in a Generic Model template.

[edale]

Another question then;

Is there a way to discern the difference between a face-based family and a hosted family without loading it into a project? How do you tell how a family is set up aside from trying to place it in a project?

I'm having a devil of a time with all this wacky new terminology...

Thanks for any help...!

[Scott Womack]

Another question then;

Is there a way to discern the difference between a face-based family and a hosted family without loading it into a project? How do you tell how a family is set up aside from trying to place it in a project?

Unfortunately, there is no real way to tell, other than trying to insert it. We use some family naming conventions to try to help. Items such as "Line-Based, Face-Based, Hosted", etc.are added to family names, when we are sure how they are reacting, or as we modify them.