Combining three windows as one family

[Anonymous]

Hi,

While I was looking for triple windows,

I realized it is better to combine three windows that I have.

Two fixed windows and one operable casement window.

And I wanted to use this combination in the future projects.

Is there anyway to combine two or more families? 

I tried nesting families but could not get one.

Please advise.

[ToanDN]

Absolutely.  You can nest as many child-windows into one parent-window as you want.  It is a very common approach.

[Anonymous]

Thanks ToanDN.

I tried nesting families.

So if I don't change the size, it is fine.

But when I change the size it breaks up.

Should I combine those different way if I want to modify each windows?

[Anonymous]

Oh got it for now.

I missed to lock those two.

So it is not possible to 'EDIT TYPE' nesting families?

Below, selected window is a host family.

Thanks a lot

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

See the example below.  for nesting family, it is better to use Instance parameters in the child families so you have more flexibility associate parameters in the parent family.

[Anonymous]

Thanks so much ToanDN.

One more question.

I only cuts the wall in certain height (sill height 0'-0")

How can they cut the wall in every height?

Is it s view range problem? 

Thanks again.

[ToanDN]

Do you mean your View range cut plane is at 0? It should be 4' or around that range.

[Anonymous]

View range is fine.. I think. 

I am not sure what the problem is..

If it is not touching the ground, it fills with the wall color in the background.

It looks fine in 3D view though.

[barthbradley]

TIP: Make the nested windows SHARED families, that way your Project Schedules will report 'em.  

[ToanDN]

Not sure what is going on.  It works fine here.  See the file.

[barthbradley]

Some useful information that may be at the heart of your issue: Window & door families are not cut based on the cut plane defined in project views. Instead they are cut based on the cut plane defined in the family's plan view.

 https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles...

[Anonymous]

Oh. It was because visual style was Shaded or Consistent Colors.

But is this normal in Shaded mode?

Is there way to make it same as window touching the ground?

[barthbradley]

Plan Regions is what you need here. Are you familiar with them? 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/EN...

[ToanDN]

Edit teh material so that the shading is white.

[italonge]

Hi everyone

I was looking for many foruns and videos, but I've not found a good step by step that helped me

I'm having problem when I try to share the parameters to change sizes into project

Actually, I want to make something a little complex, but it will help me a understand a lot about Revit Families

The image below explains better:

There is 4 families: The mirror, counter, sink and faucet and the cabinet

Inside the family file it's ok, there is all parameters, but when I load it in some project, I lost them..

How can I make it editable?

Thank you so much for the help!

[ToanDN]

Make those child families "shared".

[italonge]

@ToanDN How to do that?

I'm only see this option around the web, but it doesn't works... Checking "shared" option don't change nothing...

So I guess it's something else that I'm missing

[ToanDN]

Tick that Shared box then you will have all the parameters of the nested families for scheduling, and be able to tag them individually in project.

[italonge]

Well, doesn't worked... I think I didn't not explain very well

Again I'd loaded two existing families in a Metric Generic Model

Inside this file it's ok, but when I load this into a project, I can't edit their parameters...

I'm trying to transform those existing parametes in shared parameters, but nothing works!

But the different tag worked fine...

[ToanDN]

Well the parameters can be seen and reported. To modify them in project, you need to associate them with parameters of the host family. Do a search in "associate nested family parameters".