Casework in family appears different in elevation view than the family editor

[Anonymous]

I am creating a family for a shelf and the casework appears to be correct when editing it in the family part, but when I upload it to the model and view it in elevation, the dimensions of the casework is all wrong and overlapping with one another.

[barthbradley]

Sounds like it is improperly built. 

Post the family. We'll fix 'er up.  

[Anonymous]

I feel like it has something to do with changing the dimensions of the casework and it not carrying over for some reason.

[barthbradley]

Nothing is constrained in this family. It broke to smithereens when I tried flexing it in the Family. You need to Align and Lock elements to Ref. Planes and drive the Ref. Planes with labeled Dimensions.  Do you understand what I mean?   

[Anonymous]

I sort of know what you mean, I have never had a ton of direction when it comes to creating new families so could you possibly explain a little further?

[barthbradley]

Here some information describing the crux of it.  I would suggest using some keywords in this article to Google for some on-line tutorial videos.  

[barthbradley]

Sorry @Anonymous; I see I didn't include the link address to the page that describes the "crux" of the problem you have.   

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Revit-Customize/files/GUID-26CE1E00-72C1-49D6-9295-A59F50BAA0EF-htm.html