Try This w/ a V. Reveal on Curved Wall

[sjsl]

We are trying to put a vert. reveal on a curved wall to create a large masonry column.48" in dia.

When you put the default vert. reveal on it and go to plan, the reveal is never tangent to the center of the radius. Lside the reveal back and forth along the wall. We even tried to use ref. planes.

Anyone else confirm this as a bug?

It does it in both 7 and the other (NDA)

[sbrown]

You are probably better off with a generic wall based family for the void, you will have much better control. Even better than that is to create it first as a generic wall based family, then change it to a struct family. you will then be able to snap to the center of the void, which you can't do in the generic model families.

[tamas]

The placement of the reveal depends on the origin and horizontal, vertical refplanes of the profile. The default square is placed at its corner.

For vertical reveals, or sweeps to curved walls this may not be ideal. You could use a profile that is positioned symmetrically to its origin and coord directions.

In your case I think you want a profile that is a 48" diameter circle positioned such that the origin is on the bottom of the circle. See attached files.

[sjsl]

We found out that the default vert. sweep profile is created from the corner. After recreating the profile from its center, we had control of how it appears.

Thanks for the help and tips.

[Steve_Stafford]

...Even better than that is to create it first as a generic wall based family, then change it to a struct family. you will then be able to snap to the center of the void, which you can't do in the generic model families...That was a bug which, from what I've seen so far, is fixed from 7.0 on...