topic Re: Family will not change type after load in Revit Architecture Forum

Family will not change type after load

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:58:57 GMT

I'm going through a tutorial on families (Paul Aubin) and have created a shelf w/ nested brackets that works as expected when flexed in the family editor. Any project I load it into shows it at its default configuration, but when I select it in the project and change it's type in the properties box, the configuration does not flex - it stays as inserted. It also shows my parameters in the properties box as individually modifiable.

Anyone know off hand what I'm missing?

Thanks.

Re: Family will not change type after load

fernanda.firman — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:04:43 GMT

Could you please post the family?

Re: Family will not change type after load

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:28:06 GMT

Sure.

Re: Family will not change type after load

ryan.duell — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:42:28 GMT

Currently your parameters in the family are all set > “Instance”.

Modify the “Width”, “Thickness” and “Depth” parameters to be “Type” in the family instead. For an expansion on how instance parameters are remembered, which explains why they do not update in the project, see the post here:

http://insidethefactory.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/12/perfecting-the-palette.html

Thank you,

Re: Family will not change type after load

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:27:36 GMT

Thank you!