Rotating a Family

[Anonymous]

I created a Unistrut General Fittings family. When I insert the family it will rotate in plan view (floor plan), but when I try to rotate it along the z axis in on of the elevation views its giving me a message that it can't rotate the fitting in that position. I've unchecked the "Always Vertical" box in the family, it still wont rotate

Is there a parameter in the family that I need to address in order to get the fitting to rotate in the z axis?

Thank You

[adam.jw]

Might be associated with some kind of workplane/surface.

Post the family so that we might download it and analyze it ourselves 🙂

[Anonymous]

There are just two fittings in this family so far. If you see anything else that I can do to make this family perform better, feel free to critique.

Thanks

[CoreyDaun]

Sorry for the delay of response. What Template did you use to create this Family?

[Anonymous]

I used the generic model.rft

[CoreyDaun]

You're not going to be able to just freely rotate this Family into any position. My suggestion is to make this Family a "Work Plane-Based" Family, which is an option that can be found under the Family Category and Parameters. This will allow you to host the element to a Face or a Reference Plane. To see what I mean, make this change to your Family and then load it into a blank Project. Create an "In-Place" extrusion (just a box, any Category) and then go to a 3D View. Place a few instances of your Family on difference faces of the box and see how they behave.

If this does not suit your needs, please elaborate a bit on what you are ultimately trying to accomplish with this Family.

[Sandleaz]

Try to categorize it as something other than Generic Model and mirror it about a line.