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mbalsom
2010-06-14, 10:11 AM
I'm trying to do a Furniture Legend for a heap of different furniture (floor based) families i have made. I can get the plan view on the legend sheet but unlike other families like doors and windows ther is only one view option being plan (top) view and no front view in view options drop down box.
Am I missing something ?
Alfredo Medina
2010-06-14, 01:12 PM
Does the problem happen with your custom furniture families, only? I tested this with the furniture elements that come with Revit, and it works correctly.
mbalsom
2010-06-14, 09:26 PM
Hi Alfredo
Thanks for clue. Yes the stock furniture families work correctly but my custom ones do not. I noticed the stock families are not floor based families but work plane based.In the stock families properties once loaded host is blank where as mine are floor hosted.This seems to be the only difference.
Question is how to change my families to not be floor based
mbalsom
2010-06-14, 09:45 PM
It is definitely the host - floor giving me the problem. How do I dissociate my families from the floor being the host and back to plane based.
iru69
2010-06-14, 09:49 PM
Open up existing furniture family, start new family. Copy and paste from one to the other. If they're parametric, you might have to set up a lot of reference planes and labeled dimensions all over again.

Don't know how you got sucked into building your families as floor-based components... but obviously a mistake. I tend to stay away from floor/wall/ceiling-based families.

Good luck with that!


Question is how to change my families to not be floor based

Edit: p.s. don't forget the "Work Plane-Based" checkbox under the Family Category & Parameter settings.
t1.shep
2010-06-14, 10:04 PM
You might also be able to nest you hosted family into a non-hosted family. I think if you make the nested family shared, you'll still be able to adjust your parameters, or you'll need to create a similar parameter and "map" it to the parameter in your nested family. I don't think you'll need to recreate ref. planes or dimensions.
mbalsom
2010-06-14, 10:08 PM
Open up existing furniture family, start new family. Copy and paste from one to the other. If they're parametric, you might have to set up a lot of reference planes and labeled dimensions all over again.


Hi
Yeah thanks just tried that solution and everything is parametric. Sucked in well and truley on this one.Never again!!