topic Re: Revit Join Inconsistency in Revit Architecture Forum

Revit Join Inconsistency

dbroad — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 03:43:09 GMT

I can get adaptive components to join and blend with one another visually in a family. See image below.

But when the family is loaded into a project, whether as an individual object or as a curtainwall pattern, the joining behavior breaks and all the edges of the individual parts are shown. This is unsuitable when plotted. See below. Does anyone have a solution or have any experience with this? Tested in Revit 2017.

Re: Revit Join Inconsistency

ToanDN — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:02:24 GMT

Can you share the adaptive family?

Re: Revit Join Inconsistency

dbroad — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:56:50 GMT

Sure. See attached. I was attempting to model a Chippendale Railing. For this family, I left out the enclosing band because I was testing how to get the parts to show up as a single monolithic material.

Re: Revit Join Inconsistency

ToanDN — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:21:19 GMT

Uncheck the Shared option for the nested family 2x2adaptive (you need to save a new file, load in the host family, select the original instances and replace them with the new ones).

Re: Revit Join Inconsistency

dbroad — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:52:45 GMT

Thanks @ToanDN. Surprising how the shared checkmark causes these kinds of problems. I am attaching a fixed version. Will keep tweaking. Works well for divided surfaces now. Can't use for a curtainwall panel because adaptive components can't be imported into curtainwall panels but I think I could use the same technique for the curtainwall panel design (without the adaptive points). Probably need a better family name as well. I was just cycling through trial and error and keeping names short.

Re: Revit Join Inconsistency

ToanDN — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:05:12 GMT

@dbroad wrote:

Can't use for a curtainwall...

Yes you can. Create the curtain panel using the pattern based curtain panel family template.

Re: Revit Join Inconsistency

dbroad — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:59:10 GMT

I've tried loading both an adaptive family and a curtainwall pattern family that contains the adaptive family into a curtainwall panel family and both times I get:

"While loading "<name of family>": Families created from "Generic Model Adaptive" templates may only be loaded into projects or families created from "Pattern Based", "Generic Model Adaptive", or "Mass" templates."

What am I missing?