j_starko
2010-04-28, 06:37 PM
Hey,
I'm trying to make a complicated family.
we have a curtain wall that is curved in plan , and angled in section, so In elevation the panels are a trapezoid and not a square.
the curtain wall is held together not with a tradition mullion, but with a corner clamp system, and that is what i'm trying to model.
I wanted to model the clamp itself, and have it nested into another family that would hold a vertical array of the clamps.. and then I would use this to have the mullion clamps populate the drawing.
I was going to have a parameter to control the angle and some parameters to control the clamps height in elevation.
I made the one side of the clamp as a separate family ( a generic component ) and inserted into the array family. but Revit isn't letting me align it with the angle of the curtain wall.
so my first hurtle to get over is to create a clamp family that can be nested into another family, and then rotated and aligned in section to be at the same angle as the curtain wall.
anyone have any pointers ? or have any of you tried to solve similar problems ?
I'm trying to make a complicated family.
we have a curtain wall that is curved in plan , and angled in section, so In elevation the panels are a trapezoid and not a square.
the curtain wall is held together not with a tradition mullion, but with a corner clamp system, and that is what i'm trying to model.
I wanted to model the clamp itself, and have it nested into another family that would hold a vertical array of the clamps.. and then I would use this to have the mullion clamps populate the drawing.
I was going to have a parameter to control the angle and some parameters to control the clamps height in elevation.
I made the one side of the clamp as a separate family ( a generic component ) and inserted into the array family. but Revit isn't letting me align it with the angle of the curtain wall.
so my first hurtle to get over is to create a clamp family that can be nested into another family, and then rotated and aligned in section to be at the same angle as the curtain wall.
anyone have any pointers ? or have any of you tried to solve similar problems ?