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    Default Re: Furniture vs. Furniture Systems

    Quote Originally Posted by cjneedham View Post
    Try as I might, I can't replicate this behaviour. I've attached a sample project with a single nested family inside (L-shape specialty equipment object, but you can swap it to Furniture or Furniture Systems, with the same effect). It's no different to the normal observations. It's the same for me in 2009 and 2010.
    Chris, I just looked at the file. I guess I was not clear enough. The trick is that the family you are nesting in, must be a type that is "able to be cut" by itself. I thought I had talked about nesting a Generic Model family within a Specialty Equipment one. If not sorry. That is what I had meant to say.

    One of these days I need to get back to Australia, I'm dying for some Roo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Womack View Post
    I thought I had talked about nesting a Generic Model family within a Specialty Equipment one.
    I'm confused now. That is exactly what I've done. Inside the project is a Specialty Equipment family 'Family2', and nested into that one is a generic model family 'Family1'. Where are our methods different? I can't figure it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Womack View Post
    One of these days I need to get back to Australia, I'm dying for some Roo.
    Why not come over for RTC (www.revitconference.com) next year (not sure of the proposed dates, but I think it''s 20-22 May). It'll be held in Sydney. Think of it as a tax write-off and a holiday all at once!

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    Default Re: Furniture vs. Furniture Systems

    Quote Originally Posted by cjneedham View Post
    I'm confused now. That is exactly what I've done. Inside the project is a Specialty Equipment family 'Family2', and nested into that one is a generic model family 'Family1'. Where are our methods different? I can't figure it.
    Sorry about that, I did fail to mention (something I evidently do out of habit without thinking) The nested family has to be a Shared Family. Then you'll get the behavior I was talking about. That will also mean, that any parameters you want in the "nested" family to be driven by the host family will have to be instance parameters.

    Quote Originally Posted by cjneedham View Post
    Why not come over for RTC (www.revitconference.com) next year (not sure of the proposed dates, but I think it''s 20-22 May). It'll be held in Sydney. Think of it as a tax write-off and a holiday all at once!
    It's an idea, but the economic climate here in the US is still rather grim. In the firm I'm in, everyone took a 12% pay cut at thee beginning of June.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Womack View Post
    The nested family has to be a Shared Family. Then you'll get the behavior I was talking about.
    Uh hah! That makes more sense. Okay at least now I can assess how feasible this workaround is. At first glance the use of subcategories suffers (they have to be subcategories of Generic Model (or whatever bottom-level nested family category is in use)). In this way, you might as well use a casework family to begin with, as you may already have the same subcategories defined. That would mean that the main reason you'd use this workaround is to avoid extensive use of filters in schedules to distinguish between different objects (where you would otherwise have 'over-used' the casework category.

    Thanks again for the tip in any case, Scott.

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    Default Re: Furniture vs. Furniture Systems

    Check out this following poll/discussion started a while back.

    http://forums.augi.com/showthread.ph...Family-dilemma

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