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Revit Families with Array

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:23:03 GMT

I am making a Panel Form for conrcret as a family. I was hoping to create one that has the ability to adjust vertically and horizantally. I was able to use the Array funstion to make it adjust vertically and add or subtract 2x6 wailers depening on height (attached is a screenshot to better understand). Everything works perfect before the array was added. Once I added the array the height worked but the width of the 2x6 will not adjust like it should. the referenc planes move but the 2x6 stay the same size. How do I get the arrayed objects to stay true to their constraints?

Re: Revit Families with Array

L.Maas — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 07:13:21 GMT

What I normally do in those cases is to make the object to be arrayed as a nested family. Then it becomes much easier to control them in the host family.

see attached example (Revit 2016)

Re: Revit Families with Array

sureshchotrani — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:44:36 GMT

Kindly share the rfa file, will see what is messing:)

Re: Revit Families with Array

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 11:55:28 GMT

I have attached it below. Basically I wanted it to adjust vertically at 2' increments from 4'-20' and horizontally in any dimension needed up to 8'.

Thank you.

Re: Revit Families with Array

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:04:39 GMT

I cant open your file because it is in 2016 and I am using 2015

Re: Revit Families with Array

L.Maas — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:22:44 GMT

Link the length of the beam to the width of the panel in the host

Re: Revit Families with Array

sureshchotrani — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:26:31 GMT

Kindly see attached, you need to lock width in all objects.

Re: Revit Families with Array

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:36:27 GMT

whenever I adjust the width it says constraints are not satisfied

Re: Revit Families with Array

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:38:13 GMT

When I do that then make it an array it does adjust the width properly. it somes up with a contraint error

Re: Revit Families with Array

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 18:47:14 GMT

I got it to work finally. I needed to only constrain one side of the array while locking the length parameter. locking both sides was too much and caused issues. Thank you for helping!