When rotating family geometry, it often breaks the whole assembly. There's no apparent logical reason for this, it just makes it really hard to fix broken or develop new families. Please fix this issue. Rotating things should not break them, especially when using the "disjoin" button.
I can say with certainty that Autodesk has broken many families in America. Let's stop the social damage.
@ToanDN That's not the part I'm trying to rotate. Have a look at the initila GIF. I'm saying that when rotating vanila elements, they break, which is a huge pain if you're trying to do a good old family. This was just one of many instances where the "bg" is apparent.
If this is normal behavior, I'd love to see the logical explanation why rotation break once it has been disjoined, ideally from the Revit documentation. Something like: "Modeled elements can only be rotated once the plane they were created on, otherwise they will break".
I'll create sub families to rotate discrete elements as suggested, but I feel it's a useless step to go around a bug/majorWeakness in the software.
Same reason as I already said earlier. The extrusion was drawn on a surface of a wall as the work plane. It can only rotate around the Z axiz of that plane. You cannot break that rule. If you want to rotate it from a floor plan view, then draw it using the level or a horizontal reference plane as the work plane.
Below is an example of the extrusions I created using a horizontal face as the work plane. They can rotate without any problems. Still, the recommended and bullet proof workflow is create that piece of equipment as a separate family, the same way you did for the fountain above. Constrain all the parts of that equipment within that family so that when you nest it in the parent family, you can move, rotate, flip the whole thing without headaches.
@Anonymous wrote:
The video shows rotation on the plan workplane, I was trying to rotate from a side elevatin view. Picked the new Left/Right Workplane and rotated and it breaks the geometry. I also tried grouping but it had the same effect.
Same principle. If you want to rotate them from a side elevation view, then they must be created based on work plane parallel to the side elevation view. Or, you can rotate the work planes instead of the geometry and anything hosted on those work planes will rotate accordingly.
If you want to rotate the geometry with Disjoined then you need to accept some, if not all, constraints will be lost for future revision.
@Anonymous
If the elements are not associated with any workplane then you are free to rotate them. Were you not able to do it?
Hi @ToanDN I really appreciate your help and patience. Thanks for being as stubborn as me.
When I rotate the family 90 or 180 degrees in Left/Right, it automatically breaks for me. Are you using Reivt 2017.2.2?
Weirdly enough, rotating 45 degrees does not break it. It's almost as if it gets confused by the extrusion +/- direction once the direction is inverted (up becomes down).
