Family insertion point not working

[nozci]

Family insertion point as the intersection of planes defining origin is in the middle of the section. But Revit inserts it from top of the section. Is there another setting for this?

[barthbradley]

What's the family? Post it here.  

[nozci]

Structural beam family. Here:

[barthbradley]

It's a Structural Framing Family. It's unidirectional, like a Line-Based Family.  

[nozci]

I thought line-based unidirectional families for arrays or something, but it could be good if it used the insertion point. Currently, it uses the top of the section to insert. 

[Mike.FORM · Accepted solution]

Before placing the beam in the project, change the justification in the properties to origin.

If you change the justification before placing the beam, all subsequent beams will start with that same justification.

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

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@nozci wrote:

I thought line-based unidirectional families for arrays or something, but it could be good if it used the insertion point. Currently, it uses the top of the section to insert. 

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Unidirectional=moving or operating in a single direction.

What's your question?  

Do you just want the element to be categorized as ""Structural Framing" and not behave like Structural Framing?  If so, create the element in a Generic Model Template (rft) and then recategorize the Family from Generic Model to Structural Framing.  Know how?

Help | Specify Family Category and Parameters | Autodesk

[nozci]

Good information, thank you.

[nozci]

Just saw your reply. That one what I was looking for. Thanks.