Creating Wall Based Family

[Anonymous]

I want to Create a Wall Nitch that will be in a tiled shower we are doing.  Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to create a family that cuts into a wall? I don't want to Create an opening, because I don't want it going all the way through the wall.  I am not sure how to go about this.  Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! 🙂

[Alfredo_Medina]

Make a face-based family with a void, and cut the void from the sample face in the family editor. Once you load this into a project, and put it on the face of the wall, it will cut the wall.

[Anonymous]

I tried this and couldnt get it to work.  Do you have an example of one that you got to work?

[Alfredo_Medina · Accepted solution]

In the family editor, do Cut geometry, select the void, select the sample volume. It should cut the wall in the project, too.

[Anonymous]

Thanks so much!! I completely missed the step of using Cut Geometry. Oops!

[Anonymous]

Thnaks you are a helpful man as i have seen you around quite often in the forums. But when I do this the form which I see is orange and doesnt cut teh wall even though it is there as a void form. It does NOT even show when I insret ot to the project. The file is attached. 

[ToanDN]

You need to cut the wall with the void in the family, and set the family to Cut with void when loaded.  See attached family I have modified.