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How to associate a level or reference plane to an in-place family

steve5JY5S — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:09:07 GMT

Hello - I have created a column with an in-place family (extrusion) . . . how do I tie (associate) the top of that column to a level or reference plane? I see where you can give the "Extrusion End" a parameter, how do I use that to tie it to a level?

Re: How to associate a level or reference plane to an in-place family

syman2000 — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:27:35 GMT

When you edit in-place, did you click on edit workplane and change the level?

Re: How to associate a level or reference plane to an in-place family

alan.johnson7YLND — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:30:12 GMT

I don't think you can use the Extrusion End parameter that way, but you could just Align and lock the top face of your column to a Level or Ref Plane.

Or create it as a family using the Column template which has an upper level reference.

Re: How to associate a level or reference plane to an in-place family

barthbradley — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:32:42 GMT

Why don't you Align the Extrusion to the Levels in Elevation View before you finalize and close out of In-Place modeling mode?

Re: How to associate a level or reference plane to an in-place family

steve5JY5S — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:41:17 GMT

Thanks, all - yes, I did align/lock the top of the column to the level, that's how I've always done it. I just wondered if you could do it thru the parameters in its properties, that way you could go to its properties and see which level it was associated with; thought maybe that was a better way to do it. No biggie - I'll just keep doing it that way.

Re: How to associate a level or reference plane to an in-place family

syman2000 — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:45:19 GMT

You can tie the in-place family parameter with global parameter.

Re: How to associate a level or reference plane to an in-place family

ToanDN — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:06:30 GMT

Lower and Upper Levels are specific properties of Column family templates, not in place families. If you want top or base offset then place reference planes in the family to constrain the extrusions, then place parametric dimensions from the planes to the levels.