How to rotate a Face based Family to a perpendicular Reference Plan

[stingers80-cgarchitect]

Hi Everybody,

I have this Generic Face based family which was created by someone else.

It is annoyingly created perpendicular to the face it is meant to attach.

I can't rotate any of the objects or change their orientation to be on the Face it is meant to be.

I can't rotate their Host Plane even while editing their shape (e.g. sweep)

I tried copy and pasting the objects to a new family but they all appear on the same orientation as they are created.

Any ideas?

[kadmonkee]

change the orientation and origin in the family itself

if it needs to be on an elevation view manually set it in the family editor

currently it is set in a plan view, so change it to a left or right view orientation.

[barthbradley]

Post the family. We'll fix it. 

[stingers80-cgarchitect]

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@barthbradley wrote:

Post the family. We'll fix it. 

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Here it is.

This one is not a complicated one so one way I found is to individually change host of masses in 3d view. I was wondering if there was easier way without the need to put back all the objects together after Re-hosting.

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

Like this?

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Just rotate it on the side elevation.

[barthbradley]

@stingers80-cgarchitect: Did you not like the family I posted in #5?  Just curious why that one didn't work for you.  

[stingers80-cgarchitect]

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@barthbradley wrote:

@stingers80-cgarchitect: Did you not like the family I posted in #5?  Just curious why that one didn't work for you.  

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Hi,

I'm sorry. I didn't realize there were 2 replies. I only saw the last post with the family. It worked. I don't know how I wasn't able to rotate them from side view. It seemed that they were locked.

Thanks for help.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

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@stingers80-cgarchitect wrote:

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@barthbradley wrote:

@stingers80-cgarchitect: Did you not like the family I posted in #5?  Just curious why that one didn't work for you.  

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Hi,

I'm sorry. I didn't realize there were 2 replies. I only saw the last post with the family. It worked. I don't know how I wasn't able to rotate them from side view. It seemed that they were locked.

Thanks for help.

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You need to check Disjoin box when you rotate it.