Blue grips of column not showing

[ruiterCV8G6]

Hello all,

I am fairly new to Revit. I have made my own family of structural columns and beams which i would like to use for timber framing of our houses.

I just copied a Autodesk family and changed the dimensions of the timber. So far so good. 

For the beams i can change the length by draging the blue triangle grips to the desired location which helps a lot!

For the studs i can not use the grips because the do not show when i select the stud. I can not figure out what is wrong with it. I have uploaded the file in this message...

[alan.johnson7YLND · Accepted solution]

If you have created your studs from a column the height of the column is controlled by the base level and the top level plus any offsets. So, the column is controlled by the levels it is referenced to.

[alan.johnson7YLND]

So, you might need to add extra levels into your project to control the timber framing height

[barthbradley]

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@ruiterCV8G6 wrote:

I am fairly new to Revit. I have made my own family of structural columns and beams which i would like to use for timber framing of our houses.

 Are you actually Timber Framing as opposed to Stick Framing?  Just curious.  

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Columns (structural or architectural) have no stretching grips.  You control the height via  Base/Top Level and Base/Top Offset.  If you want grips for stretching flexibility then use a different family template such as generic model.