Angled, Rising Sweep or Swept Blend

[nickedemus]

Is it possible to do this? I am trying to replicate these two brackets w/ trim on a house:
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I have the brackets down for the most part, but the trim at the top is giving me a lot of trouble. I can't figure out how to get a sweep to travel along the top of the assembly (so that it sits directly under the gable). When I try to pick the angled, rising paths that I want, revit places the lines in 2D, in plan:

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The end result comes out like this:
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How can I get the sweep to conform to the correct 3D path?

Here is a copy of the family:
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[damon.sidel]

If you start in the front elevation view, can you create your path correctly? Or you can try picking your work plane as the front of the brackets. That might help.

[nickedemus]

Sorry, I wasn't very clear in my first post.

Yes, if I start out in the front elevation, it will copy the pitch. But the problem is that no matter where I start, I am confined to only one work-plane. I need the sweep to wrap around each corner, from front-to-left and from front-to-right. And I need it to also copy the pitch in the front elevation.

[mthurnauer]

You should have an option with the sweep to pick 3d edges. When you do this option, it will place the sweep path right on the actual edge in lieu of on the reference plane.

[nickedemus]

I see.

I was using "Sketch Path." If I select "Pick Path," it gives me the 3D option. Excellent. Thank you.

[nickedemus]

I have one more problem.


The sweep is sitting very nicely along the right and left sides:
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But the base of the sweep angles away from the front elevation:
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The front face is at 90 degrees to the sides. Why is the sweep flipping up like that, and what can be done to prevent it?

[patricks]

In your bracket I think you need to make an angled face that is perpendicular to the angle/slope of your roof and gable soffit. That way the profile itself will remain angled to the same slope, and the profile itself will make only a 90-degree corners around the bracket.

[patricks]

Attached your family with what I was talking about.

[nickedemus]

YOU ARE RIGHT!!

I missed that!

Thanks so much!!