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Changing the materials available in the truss properties window

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Anonymous
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Changing the materials available in the truss properties window

I have Revit 2018.

I am trying to change the structural framing type of a truss.

 

In the Properties window, the only options currently available under the "Structural Framing Type" are "Set Framing Type" and "W Shapes: W12xX26".  I want "dimensional lumber" as an option.

 

How do I load in a different material, such as dimensional lumber, so that it is available as a framing type option in the Truss Properties window?

All of my attempts to load materials so far end in the error message "The family is not of the correct category."

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: Anonymous

Load the Type into the Project first.  If it's a Structural Framing Type, it should appear in drop-down list.  

 

FWIW: if you load the Structural Framing Family and place one instance of it in the Project, and then draw your Truss, the Truss will use that Structural Framing member by default.  

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ToanDN
als Antwort auf: Anonymous

- Insert menu > Load Family button > Load the Dimensional lumber family under Structural Framing
- Edit the truss type and assign dimensional lumber types to Chords and/or Webs
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Anonymous
als Antwort auf: ToanDN

Awesome, it worked. Thank you!
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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: ToanDN

Never fails. YOU come in and say the same thing I did and score the solution credit. What's your secret?  Being second?  

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

This is just a test post.  

 


@barthbradley wrote:

Load the Type into the Project first.  If it's a Structural Framing Type, it should appear in drop-down list.  

 

FWIW: if you load the Structural Framing Family and place one instance of it in the Project, and then draw your Truss, the Truss will use that Structural Framing member by default.  


 

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

Nope, that didn't work.

 

Oh well.  

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Anonymous
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

The difference is that the other person specified exactly which menu to load the family from. Your information was useful generally, and will help to optimize future workflow, but it doesn't actually answer the specific question of "how to load the material" in this particular situation. I appreciate that you took the time to answer anyway.
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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: Anonymous

Huh? There's only a handful of ways to LOAD a family into a Project. You can any or all of them to LOAD a Structural Framing Family.  There no "special" way to LOAD a Truss member. Besides all that, the issue was not LOADING -- it was loading the correct CATEGORY. In your case, STRUCTURAL FRAMING MEMBER CATEGORY.  

 

FWIW... "Material" (as in ""how to load the material") means something entirely different from what you are talking about.  

 

 

@barthbradley wrote:

Load the Type into the Project first.  If it's a Structural Framing Type, it should appear in drop-down list.  

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Sahay_R
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

I'm doing exactly as both of you say - when I switch the Structural Framing types, the webs and chords disappear!


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ToanDN
als Antwort auf: Sahay_R

Is your view Coarse, Medium, or Fine?
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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: Sahay_R

Huh?  Refresh my memory.  What did I say 9 months ago that doesn't work?  

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Sahay_R
als Antwort auf: ToanDN

Fine.


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Sahay_R
als Antwort auf: Sahay_R

Switched from this

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to this - 

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and then the truss disappears.


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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: Sahay_R

You don't say.  

 

Pretty quirky.  Does it happen with other Materials too? Try Carpet.  

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Sahay_R
als Antwort auf: Sahay_R

The Dimension Lumber family also has the correct visibility.

Capture1.PNG

 


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Sahay_R
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

Happened with the W section too


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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: Sahay_R

Maybe the Motherboard inhaled some second-hand cannabis smoke?  

 

Kidding. 

 

Can you post the file?  

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Sahay_R
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

@barthbradley - stop snickering....


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Sahay_R
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

Here you are.....


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