How to make wooden columns ?

[jgarciacorpus69]

Hello, I have been trying to make the columns for this part of the building, but there is only steel, concrete ones. I already have other concrete and steel ones and when I duplicate it, it changes all of them. Thinking that duplicating would allow me to make different ones. 

[barthbradley]

Did you already figure out all your other issues?  

So, regarding this wooden column thing: it sounds like you are changing the properties of a Shared Asset.  Don't do that.  

[barthbradley]

Now remember: you don't need to start a new thread to reply to me.  Just reply here.  😉

[barthbradley]

BTW: Do you know the difference between Instance and Type Parameters?  That might be a factor here as well. 

https://www.cadlinecommunity.co.uk/hc/en-us/articles/201872231-Difference-between-Instance-and-Type-....

[jgarciacorpus69]

For the roofing no, the roofing for the mail center I tried to make two roofs separate but it does not look connected. 

Like this one 

[jgarciacorpus69]

Is there a video for this? 

[barthbradley]

Are you being serous here? You are showing me an image that is incorrect in your assessment.  That is an image is found on a PDF of a Sheet that you posted on another thread. Nowhere in the RVT file you posted is there a View that corresponds with what that image shows. So, what's the point?  

[barthbradley]

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@jgarciacorpus69 wrote:

Is there a video for this? 

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For what? 

[jgarciacorpus69]

The reason that image for the is the roofing plan for the mailing center, it does not look like that in the  rvt file because I am still working on making it look like that. 

[jgarciacorpus69]

Like a video on  Instance and Type Parameters? 

[ToanDN]

Why don't you just load wood column family in from the library?

[jgarciacorpus69]

I see in the family Lumber Columns, is it this one? 

My apologies this is my 5th consecutive month working on Revit since 2019, still working on it. 

[ToanDN]

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@jgarciacorpus69 wrote:

I see in the family Lumber Columns, is it this one? 

My apologies this is my 5th consecutive month working on Revit since 2019, still working on it. 

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Yes. Lumber is wood.  Make sure you load the family from Structural Columns, not Columns.

[jgarciacorpus69]

Where do you find the structural columns, I clicked on structural but it does not look like the one you have. 

[jgarciacorpus69]

Where do you find the structural columns, I clicked on structural but it does not look like the one you have. 

[ToanDN]

Why are you looking in Annotations category?

[barthbradley]

I just looked and guess what, @jgarciacorpus69...I have no wooden columns either!  Only brick, granny floral wallpaper, chrome, grass (nicely manicured; no brown spots) and Jell-O.  Don’t know what flavor though.  Looks like grape. 

Only half-kidding here.  

[jgarciacorpus69]

Maybe I could update the Column and just edit the material in project properties as a wooden material ? But when I do that and want to set it up to the plane I want it does not allow me because it is above the plane of where I am trying to place the column at.

[jgarciacorpus69]

Maybe I could update the Column and just edit the material in project properties as a wooden material ? But when I do that and want to set it up to the plane I want it does not allow me because it is above the plane of where I am trying to place the column at.

[barthbradley]

Pay attention to the Options Bar when placing Columns.