array on both directions in family

[bella_checco]

Hi all, i'm trying to figure out how to create an array that works on both directions.

I've set the parameter for the number of element for both arrays, but i need also to link them, so it gives a result as in the attached file. (sorry i really don't know how to explain my task)

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

Hereunder an example of a 2D array. Attached the xample (Revit 2016)

Revit's array function is only one dimensional. So the trick is that you create a second array to array the first array.

To do this in a single family is often quite difficult. To get better control of all the constraints what I often do is. Create a family. In that family I array the objects (often a nested family) in one ditection. This array family I nest in a new family (host). In that host I array the nested family in the other direction. I pass through the relevant parameters so that in my host I can control both arrays.

In my attached example:

1-Family with objects (a simple box) to be arrayed

2-A family with the nested 'box' family, arrayed in the X direction.

3-A family with the nested Array-X family, arrayed in the Y direction

[bella_checco]

Thank you very much!