Door Family Vision Panel Issues

[a.donaldson]

Hi All

I'm new here and also new to Revit. I'm really loving the software so far. I am trying to set up a door family with various sizes and either with a vision panel or not.

Everything seems to be working fine except the vision panel placement. When the door size changes the vision panel does not move with it. 

I'm sure the issue is due to not locking the vision panel to Reference Plains but I've been trying to link them for an hour now and nothing I try works.

Please could someone have a look, I'd be forever grateful.

I have attached the door family and the separate family for the door panel.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Try this one.

[a.donaldson]

Thank you so much. Thats awesome.

Just so I know. Where did I go wrong?

[ToanDN]

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@a.donaldson wrote:

Thank you so much. Thats awesome.

Just so I know. Where did I go wrong?

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Constrain the sketch lines to ref planes and together with locked dimensions.  When you place dimensions in edit sketch mode, pay attention to the tooltip and use TAB to select <Sketch> Line as the reference.

[barthbradley]

Welcome to the club.  

It's all about improper constraining.  Revit alerted me to a half-dozen or more when I tried to open your nested door panel family. You want keep an eye on Warnings and resolve them as they occur.  If you let them stack up, they reach a point where you can't resolve them.  That's my TIP of the day to you. 

One other TIP: Lock FIXED Dimensions.