Adaptive Family Turns Upside Down

[simay.harmancioglu]

I have created an adaptive family which will function as retaining wall. All the parameters work perfectly fine, except the spline path (reference line) passing through the adaptive points I guess. In the screencast below you can see that it works fine when it is concave, but when I try to make it convex it turns upside down. Has anyone had this problem before?

Screencast link:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/757dc408-cd23-4ef5-92a5-5e8b4fe66699

[ToanDN]

Set adaptive points to Instance XY global Z, or set the family to Always Vertical. 

[simay.harmancioglu]

Actually it's already set to Always Vertical and the points are set to Placement Points and Global Z then Host XY.

[barthbradley]

Aren't you inside the AP Family in that screencast?  AP Orientation setting inside the Family doesn't affect anything.  If you want to test Orientation, load and place the AP Family on a Host in another Project.      

[simay.harmancioglu]

Even when I load it into a Project environment I cannot have the geometry I want. The middle AP won't go any further like in the link below.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/f0fe1292-7115-4d64-949a-5189b117cd81

[barthbradley]

Post the Family.  We'll figure it out for you. 

[ToanDN]

Set the form to have Consistent Profile.

[simay.harmancioglu]

It's a bit messy but here you go.

[ToanDN]

Try this one.  This is just an example for you to reverse engineer.  The profile is not the same as yours.

[simay.harmancioglu]

Thank you, this one works but I need to divide the profile vertically and horizontally cause I'm assigning Visibility parameters for each of them. I tried to load my profile into your family. But then I couldn't generate a solid with it for some reason :(, maybe because I have intersecting lines in my profile. But as I said, to be able to set the Visibility parameters I cannot have one single profile I suppose. What is your suggestion?

[ToanDN]

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@simay.harmancioglu wrote:
Thank you, this one works but I need to divide the profile vertically and horizontally cause I'm assigning Visibility parameters for each of them. I tried to load my profile into your family. But then I couldn't generate a solid with it for some reason :(, maybe because I have intersecting lines in my profile. But as I said, to be able to set the Visibility parameters I cannot have one single profile I suppose. What is your suggestion?

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Create each profile as a family, load them in host on the same ref point, then create a form from each profile.

[simay.harmancioglu]

Now when I lock the second profile it turns 90 degrees and lays on the plane. How can I solve this?

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/3fed78de-150f-4cde-8ff7-e1db46ba101a

[ToanDN]

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@simay.harmancioglu wrote:

Now when I lock the second profile it turns 90 degrees and lays on the plane. How can I solve this?

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/3fed78de-150f-4cde-8ff7-e1db46ba101a

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Before digging into this.  Any reason you opted to use an adaptive family instead of a more conventional approach such as a sweep, a swept blend, or railing?

[simay.harmancioglu]

I need adaptive points to control the spline.