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    <title>idea Show a line-based entity's direction en Revit Ideas</title>
    <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/show-a-line-based-entity-s-direction/idi-p/11359301</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;When working with line-based families they always end up being rotated, mirrored. Depending on the family in question it would be beneficial where it considers its starting and ending points.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;These could be model families as well as Brian Mackey's basic detail components&amp;nbsp;with start and end angles.&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Which one is the beginning and which the end?" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1103890iB8823C5E3658195E/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="20220815112305_Autodesk Revit 2022.1 - [VWAG_TRI_ARCH_ASS_BATT_V22.rvt - Floor Plan_ G-1100_EG_.png" alt="Which one is the beginning and which the end?" /&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();"&gt;Which one is the beginning and which the end?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 09:25:11 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>MichaelWolff</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2022-08-15T09:25:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Show a line-based entity's direction</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/show-a-line-based-entity-s-direction/idi-p/11359301</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;When working with line-based families they always end up being rotated, mirrored. Depending on the family in question it would be beneficial where it considers its starting and ending points.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;These could be model families as well as Brian Mackey's basic detail components&amp;nbsp;with start and end angles.&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Which one is the beginning and which the end?" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1103890iB8823C5E3658195E/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="20220815112305_Autodesk Revit 2022.1 - [VWAG_TRI_ARCH_ASS_BATT_V22.rvt - Floor Plan_ G-1100_EG_.png" alt="Which one is the beginning and which the end?" /&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();"&gt;Which one is the beginning and which the end?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 09:25:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>MichaelWolff</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-08-15T09:25:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Show a line-based entity's direction</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/show-a-line-based-entity-s-direction/idc-p/11360846#M46324</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Use invisible lines to draw a I and II at each end, then refer to parameters as End I and End II, e.g. "Chamfer End II". See the Revitworks casework for an example of how this works, I got the idea from them and now use it on all detail and model families instead of "left" and "right"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="MichaelWarwick7522_0-1660607759015.png" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1104205iA5903AAE54D54017/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="MichaelWarwick7522_0-1660607759015.png" alt="MichaelWarwick7522_0-1660607759015.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Snip from the technical specifications at&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.revitworks.com/casework-standard/#Technical" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Revitworks Casework.&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:58:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/show-a-line-based-entity-s-direction/idc-p/11360846#M46324</guid>
      <dc:creator>MichaelWarwick7522</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-08-15T23:58:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Show a line-based entity's direction</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/show-a-line-based-entity-s-direction/idc-p/11367814#M46395</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Here's another example of the same principle of using invisible lines in the family to determine an object's location, in this case, a fixed glass window with no obvious features to determine which is the internal or external side of the window.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;When you preselect the window, the invisible line markings show if the window is in the correct orientation, and yes I borrowed this idea from Revitworks as well &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://forums.autodesk.com/html/@D5D66E11BC96A1C8427F98151D3E9A7A/emoticons/1f642.png" alt=":cara_con_una_leve_sonrisa:" title=":cara_con_una_leve_sonrisa:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="placement location.jpg" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1105566i444B8E65BB8ABBEB/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="placement location.jpg" alt="placement location.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Alternatively to the use of invisible lines, you could simply add a&amp;nbsp; small&amp;nbsp;coloured placement line at the end of your line based on your family.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Coloured placement line.jpg" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1105568i285FA8BBB9931A74/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="Coloured placement line.jpg" alt="Coloured placement line.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Would this help?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; &lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:05:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/show-a-line-based-entity-s-direction/idc-p/11367814#M46395</guid>
      <dc:creator>Mark_Engwirda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-08-18T22:05:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Show a line-based entity's direction</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/show-a-line-based-entity-s-direction/idc-p/11378400#M46507</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/657576"&gt;@Mark_Engwirda&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/87713"&gt;@MichaelWarwick7522&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thanks for both your comments. They are both brilliant work arounds. The idea is to relieve the users of the need to create them. Btw. I add an arrow head to the end of line based things now.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:18:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>MichaelWolff</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-08-24T14:18:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Show a line-based entity's direction</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/show-a-line-based-entity-s-direction/idc-p/11379420#M46513</link>
      <description>Yeah, I would stick with the workaround with the arrow.&lt;BR /&gt;I believe the reason there is an inbuilt arrow is that you can extend&lt;BR /&gt;line-based objects in both directions, meaning an arrow at one end is not&lt;BR /&gt;necessary.&lt;BR /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 23:14:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/show-a-line-based-entity-s-direction/idc-p/11379420#M46513</guid>
      <dc:creator>Mark_Engwirda</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-08-24T23:14:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Show a line-based entity's direction</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/show-a-line-based-entity-s-direction/idc-p/11446137#M46984</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Currently we just use the "control flip arrows" and place them on the exterior/front side at the origin reference plane of the modeled element for any family, whether it be line based or not.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 16:43:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/show-a-line-based-entity-s-direction/idc-p/11446137#M46984</guid>
      <dc:creator>Mike.FORM</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-09-26T16:43:25Z</dc:date>
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