Can't Place elements

[jcoe]

I am placing doors into a stacked wall. However, Revit is only allowing me to place one door and sidelite assembly. When I try to place the second I receive the error message:

"Can't place inserts outside of hosts. These elements won't be copied."

I am not sure what this message means. Could someone explain?

If I have one door family place into the wall, then it would make since that the other one would work. I have revisited the family to see if there is an error with my family, but there appears to be none. I also thought that it was a mirroring issue, so I placed the second family instead of mirroring, and the same message appeared. I also cycled through the different wall joins to see if that was interfering with the door - no luck.

Any troubleshooting assistance would be appreciated.

[lev.lipkin]

Please post here simplified rvt file, or send it to Support.

You can break stacked wall (in right mouse pop-up menu when wall is selected) and try to put door into one of resulting wall.

Sorry for trouble.

[jcoe]

thanks for the response lev. I tried breaking the stacked wall, but then I got a message that my families were not cutting anything. I have posted a sample condition.

[ACE001]

A similar problem I have,
I'm having trouble working in elevation with many elements in my project. It seems that if I draw something in plan I can't go to the elevation and move the whole element up or down. It will only move side to side. How do I enable vertical manipulation in my project? Is it a 'workplane' issue, or something else? I set a work plane in the elevation but I still can't move things up or down. What do I do?
Thanks,
Craig

[Archman]

Craig,

Try this. When you select the object you want to move uncheck the "constrain" check box in the options bar near the top of the screen. Nine times out of ten, you can then move the object in a direction other than horizontal.