Sweep

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am creating a family, which is a sweep, by edit an empty family that I created by a structural framing family template. It is all working in the family editor, but when I use this family in a project the path line of the beam always passes through the highest point of the sweep profile and I want it to pass in the origin of the sweep profile.
Does anybody know what I have to do?

Thank you for your attention,

Carolina.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

First of all it's worth noting that this is a forum for Revit API development and this question seems to be more user/UI related. You might have better luck posting in an appropriate forum.

Structural framing families force their geometry to the top of the profile. I imagine that you were trying to create a T section or something similar where you would like the section to be placed about the neutral axis of the member (as an example). Revit will ignore the actual position of the geometry in the family and force it to the top. This was (when beams were originally added to the product) thought to be the correct approach to the problem.

I do recall some discussion about allowing this to be configured in the family but am not sure that the discussion went any further. perhaps if you post this in the Structure forum someone else has dealt with this and has more current information than I do.

[Anonymous]

I am doing this progammatically. That's why I posted it here.
But your answer helped me. I found that the reason why the family was being placed at the top was not some error of mine, but because Revit configuration instead.

Thank you!