Basic parametric dimensioning question

[Anonymous]

If I draw a wall, say wall A.

Parallel to wall A, I draw another wall, wall B.

Now, wall A is in teh right place, but wall B needs to move.

I pick wall B, its dimensions appear, I set the value I actually want,
and..... wall A moves.

But I wanted wall B to move......

No I need to contrain wall A first, in every instance of this event, will I
need to constrain the main item first ?

Is there not a quicker way of doing this.

Is there something I dont know ?

Many thanks




Tiss.

[Anonymous]

Don't lock any walls. In revit you pick the object you want to move, then change the dimension. you must have somehow constrained the walls with a dim somewhere and locked it.

Open a blank file and repeat what you wrote and B will move not A

[jaru11]

I have this problem too, and I'm not in the habit of locking or dimensioning
(call it slack) while working theses things out, is there a constraint or
something in the wall parameters?

"sdbrown" wrote in message news:5677710@discussion.autodesk.com...
Don't lock any walls. In revit you pick the object you want to move, then
change the dimension. you must have somehow constrained the walls with a
dim somewhere and locked it.

Open a blank file and repeat what you wrote and B will move not A

[Anonymous]

I drew two walls as you describe and then selected wall B. Using the temporary dimension to move wall be closer or further away worked fine. NOt sure what your problem is, but make sure that wall B is not pinned. Pinning an objects locks it in coordinate space.

Mel Persin, AIA
AEC Technology Consultant
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MasterGraphics, Inc.