Beam family visibility acting weirdly

[Anonymous]

Hi

I have a custom concrete beam family that is acting weirdly.

When I try to trim/ etend to corner, both instances of the family dissapear. They are present in the Project, just their visibility turns off.

I am trying to make the beams visible by  Underlay >Reflected ceiling plan, in order to override lines to dashed.

I am using Revit 2013 on Win 7

Attached is the beam family.

[Anonymous]

You need to add some more constraints to the profile sweep.  Open up an existing beam family and see what constraints you are missing.  

[barthbradley]

Actually, my read is that the geometry is over-constrained.  Why is it pad-locked at one side?  Also, the family is missing intelligence. Did you create it from a Structural Framing Template - or re-categorize after creating it in another Template?  

...I cannot seem to recreate your issue in a project.  Can you post your RVT?  

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Since it doesn't look any different than the OOTB concrete rectangle beam why not use the OOTB family?  Anyway, it works fine here.

[Anonymous]

??  When I open the family in Plan View all I see is the overall length...the modeled element is not constrained to the length at all.  Although showing the Left and Right reference planes are not needed since they are profile specified. 

But, opening the OTTB Concrete Beam shows exactly the same thing and works...shrug...I'll just back away from this conversation and fade away into a bush Homer Simpson style... 

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

Why fade away?  I think you are seeing the same thing @ToanDN and I are seeing, and none of us are seeing the same thing @Anonymous  is seeing.   See what I mean?

See yah.