Flip Control Location in Revit

[Anonymous]

For context purposes, I'm not quite sure where this family originated from. I believe it originally came from the out of the box library then it was modified (because I can't delete the flip controls). Regardless, I'm interested in figuring out an explanation for the behavior of the flip controls in this specific Overhead Rolling Door family. I can't figure out what is causing this to happen.

Within the family, the flips are seemingly ordinary, near the origin. However, once the family is loaded into a project, if selected, instead of being right on top of the family in plan, the flip controls instead are significantly offset. You will also notice this very blatantly by doing a zoom extents within your view. That super offset part of the family (where the grips are) is also not selectable with a right-selection window (ie there isn't anything suspicious outside the visible family components that is hidden but also selectable).

I've attached the family and a little snippet of the behavior in plan view. Thanks for taking a look!

Andrew M.

[barthbradley]

Do you have a Ref. Plane "way out there" in the family?  Delete it or change its status to Not a Reference.  

[Anonymous]

Unless the reference plane is hidden and I can't see it in any view within the family itself (even though they are checked-on within the V/G settings), there isn't something like that going on. You can see for yourself in the family. Also, I think if it was a non-weak reference plane I could snap to it with a modify tool like align or move, which doesn't seem to be the case either.

[ToanDN]

Try this one.

[Anonymous]

Toan,

Yes, that family works as it should. Did you modify the one I uploaded? If so, what did you do to fix it?

My interest in this issue lies within understanding that strange flip control behavior and/or how to fix it. The family will probably be deleted from our library considering there's a perfectly normal functioning one in the out of the box Revit library.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Yes. That is your family. I just edited it, pinned the center left/right reference plane, changed to a new type and accepted the constraint warning, and saved it.

[Anonymous]

Toan!

Unreal, simply pinning both the 'origin' reference planes fixed the issue. Not sure why they were unpinned at some point.

Thanks so much. Now I can sleep tonight 🙂