Revit Baluster Panel Family Help

[Anonymous]

I am trying to make a custom baluster panel that when loaded into a project has multiple types which control/specify the panel width. I accomplished the basics, but the problem that I am having is in creating vertical posts/rods in the bottom half of the baluster panel.  To make the posts, I first created a vertical reference line in the center of the baluster panel and trimmed its top and bottom with my angled referenced plane constraints.  Then I created a vertical post as a sweep using the reference line as the sweep path. Next, I arrayed the post along the angled reference plane, locked the distance between the posts, set a parameter for the spacing, then also created a parameter for the array so that as the width of the baluster panel increased or decreased the number of posts would also increase or decrease.  This all worked the way I had hoped while in the family itself (see attached family), but when it’s loaded into my project, the vertical location of the posts don’t flatten out when the panel is on a landing – they continue up and down at an angle.  I can’t seem to figure out what I need to do so that the posts follow the angled (or horizontal when on a landing) reference planes.  Just as a side note, I know that if I make individual reference lines each trimmed by the angled constraints and individual posts based on these ref. lines (not an array) that the posts flatten out when on a landing.  The only problem is that the use of the array is necessary to control the number of posts based on the panel width.

Thanks for your help!

[Alfredo_Medina]

There are some things in the way the family is created that are not clear. You have some model lines and some reference lines. The horizontal sweeps are created by "pick 3d path" on those reference lines,instead of being created by "pick lines" on the reference planes that are controlled by the slope angle. Also, the vertical sweeps that you want to array, those should be nested elements: otherwise, they won't contain reference planes that you can use to constrain them to the boundaries of the panel. Try to redo the family but test your plan of work step by step, for sloped conditions and for flat landings, then do the next part, etc. Seems to me that you went too far in the work inside the family editor without testing if all the parts of the family were working.