topic Re: Blue grips of column not showing in Revit Architecture Forum

Blue grips of column not showing

ruiterCV8G6 — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:22:06 GMT

Hello all,

I am fairly new to Revit. I have made my own family of structural columns and beams which i would like to use for timber framing of our houses.

I just copied a Autodesk family and changed the dimensions of the timber. So far so good.

For the beams i can change the length by draging the blue triangle grips to the desired location which helps a lot!

For the studs i can not use the grips because the do not show when i select the stud. I can not figure out what is wrong with it. I have uploaded the file in this message...

Re: Blue grips of column not showing

alan.johnson7YLND — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 14:43:43 GMT

If you have created your studs from a column the height of the column is controlled by the base level and the top level plus any offsets. So, the column is controlled by the levels it is referenced to.

Re: Blue grips of column not showing

alan.johnson7YLND — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 14:49:13 GMT

So, you might need to add extra levels into your project to control the timber framing height

Re: Blue grips of column not showing

barthbradley — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:54:30 GMT

@ruiterCV8G6 wrote:

I am fairly new to Revit. I have made my own family of structural columns and beams which i would like to use for timber framing of our houses.

Are you actually Timber Framing as opposed to Stick Framing? Just curious.

Re: Blue grips of column not showing

ToanDN — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:50:24 GMT

Columns (structural or architectural) have no stretching grips. You control the height via Base/Top Level and Base/Top Offset. If you want grips for stretching flexibility then use a different family template such as generic model.

Re: Blue grips of column not showing

fernandotsk_21 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:32:13 GMT

No it has