Help with Mass Void

[niki_funky]

"This Mass has no solid geometry for its Void Forms to cut. They must be deleted, or solid geometry added and cut."

Hi.This message pops up every time I try to make Void Form? What am I doing wrong?

regards
niki

here is the file

[Max Lloyd]

after you have created your void form (extrusion, revolve etc) you must tell it to what to cut. Before closing the family editor, select the void, then select the 'cut geometry' button, then select the object / s that you would like the void to apply to.

[niki_funky]

Thanks for the reply, but it doesn't help. I make the void, cut the roof and then I try close the Mass Family but the above Error message pops up.:confused:

[Max Lloyd]

I have attached the file with a simple extrusion cutting the roof form. This worked fine.

However, I have had peculiar instances with voids previously. It would be helpful if you re-post the file with a solid modelled instead of a void for where you want the void to be.

[niki_funky]

Ok.here is the file with the Solid Mass

regards
niki

[Max Lloyd]

I can't find the solid? Where is it?

[niki_funky]

it is there, it's just turn off in the View Properties-->Visibility

regards
niki

[Max Lloyd]

silly of me not to have seen it! Anyway, I had the same error messages, so I tried again to create a void and picked the same lines that you did for your extrusion. It worked fine. I wonder what category you created the family in? I used generic models.

Trust thats ok.

Max.

[Steve_Stafford]

"This Mass has no solid geometry for its Void Forms to cut. They must be deleted, or solid geometry added and cut." I assume that by mass you mean that you are using the massing tool to do this? You need to use an In-Place Family using the roof category to cut the roof.

[niki_funky]

Thank you. That is the answer to my problem.

regards
niki