Isolated & Wall Footing Issues

[kROSEMAN]

Has anyone come across this problem? I have some steel columns relatively close to a masonry wall the wall footing has already been placed and as I place the isolated footing for the column I get an error message stating "A generic error has occurred" which forces me to cancel the footing placement. I've checked both footings materials which are the same. I've tried both inserting the Isolated footing at a different elevation and far enough away from the wall so that there will not be any intersection of the footings. Once I try to move the isolated footing where it needs to be, intersecting the continuous footing I get the same error message and the forced cancel. If I try placing the footings in opposite order, the isolated footing first then the wall footing, I get the same results. Has anyone else run into this problem? I know that it wasn't an issue in revit 2014 and earlier versions. I've attached a screen shot of a isolated footing that I had to place at an elevation far below the bottom of the wall footing. The screen shot shows the result of when I adjust the bottom of the column so that the footing attached to it would move into the correct elevation. Thanks in advance for any input.

Kyle

[PijPiwo]

Have you tried in a brand new project with your office template and OOTB? Do you have all Revit updates installed? It works fine here, so there must be something wrong with your family (revit family file that is :lol:) or the project file.

[kROSEMAN]

Hi PijPiwo,

Yes I tried it in a new project started with our office template and got the exact same results. I also tried it with the OOTB and got the correct results of the 2 foundations types joining when they actually intersect. I even went as far as going back to 2014 to check our template with a new project and got the correct results there. So as of the time of this post, my deduction is that there is something corrupting our template file during the upgrade process. I even downloaded the bulk file upgrader from the autodesk app store in hopes that it would upgrade our 2014 templates to 2015 without corrupting them. Unfortunately since this is an add-in that must run with in revit, the same corruption was part of the output file from this add-in. I'm going to check on my revit updates next. I don't think its the family, simply because its our own custom family that was pre-loaded into the project template prior to the upgrade to 2015 and everything worked as it was supposed to in 2014.

Edit: Updated to service pack 3 and still get the same results.

[kROSEMAN]

As it turns out PijPiwo was correct about the isolated footing family was causing the issue, sort of. It was the reinforcing family nested within the footing family that was not upgrading correctly, if at all, to the new changes for rebar in 2015. Fortunately all I have to do is purge out the nested rebar family and update the footing family with the new rebar family from 2015. Hopefully this wont be a regular occurrence with future releases.

[PijPiwo]

Thanks for the update. Glad you fixed it :beer: