Window Cornice

[zanzibarbob7]

I want to make this detail and have done so with a wall sweep and editing returns to 90 degrees. Now I want to copy it to another window but it defaults to a full sweep with an error stating the overlay of the copied sweep.

I think I am making it with the wrong tools. How come I can't copy this and apply it to a window at the same level?

[christopher.zoog51272]

You are using the wrong tool. You should add this sweep to the window family. That way it will stretch with the window family (among other things)

[zanzibarbob7]

Thanks, I thought I was on the wrong track. I'll give it a try.

[Steve_Stafford]

Or...a wall hosted family that you can park above a window or door independantly?

[rookwood]

How do you make it a wall hosted family parked above a window or door?

[beegee]

What Steve means is to make a wall hosted family, place it in the model and then move it to be located above a window or door.

[zanzibarbob7]

I've made a wall hosted family of the sweep but I can't access the sweep ends to modify them to a 90 degree return.

I'm still finding my way in Revit but I THINK I would like the Cornice to be seperate from the window so that I could place it where and when I want on any style of window, then resize and copy accordingly. What is the best way to proceed?

[zanzibarbob7]

Can someone offer some guidance, please?

[Steve_Stafford]

Can someone offer some guidance, please?Sorry, meant to reply last night. Here's a quick example of what I'm talking about.

[zanzibarbob7]

Steve,

I think I see what you've done and I can achieve that with a wall sweep but when I try to build it in the family editor as family I can't get to the "change sweep return" button.

As with most things, it must be a very simple step I am missing.

Would you also comment on my thought of using it as a seperate family to be inserted above a door or window rather than Zoog's suggestion of placing it a window family. As I said, I am still treading water with Revit and have not yet started to swim the Channel and to me, the methodolgy is as important as the building steps. If I can think my way through the best proceedure it should make me more efficient in the end.

Just don't want to cobble something together.

Thanks again,

[eddy.lermytte]

Thomas
Have look in the tutorial "creating nested families > Nesting a family within Another Family.
Eddy

[Steve_Stafford]

I think I see what you've done and I can achieve that with a wall sweep but when I try to build it in the family editor as family I can't get to the "change sweep return" button.With a family and swept solids, you have to create or pick a path and then create the profile. Sounds like you are thinking of a project perspective.


...Would you also comment on my thought of using it as a seperate family to be inserted above a door or window rather than Zoog's suggestion of placing it a window family. The family I posted is based on my suggestion and what you say here. If you place my family in a project, switch to an elevation view, choose component, choose my example, place it on a wall. Then move it over a window. The only thing different between your image and my family is the overall dimensions and exact profile. If you edit the profile of my example to be more what you are looking for it should work fine.

[zanzibarbob7]

I've looked at it and I see that is probably what Zoog is refering too but I admit that I am still having some difficulty with straight families.

I am trying to put another project on Revit, (my second) so everything is sort of piling on at once. I will get there eventually but at times I feel like a Beattle bogged down in the mud.

If it were not for the genreous people in this group to lend advice and support I fear that the task would be daunting.

[Steve_Stafford]

I've looked at it and I see that is probably what Zoog is refering too but I admit that I am still having some difficulty with straight families.The family I posted is not like Chris Zoog suggested, that would be part of the window family itself. This family is separate just try putting it in a project like I described...take a look at the attached project, window and trim are separate. Download the trim I posted before, I replaced it...made it too quick before and it didn't stay against the wall correctly.