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I'm trying to develop a family for a mechanical air diffuser for my projects. This diffuser can be a wall, floor, or ceiling diffuser. But the company that makes them has fixed sizes. The tricky part is that there is no consistency between the different sizes of the various diffusers.
For example, each diffuser has a Face Plate (width and height), a Nominal (width and height), and a Neck (width and height). there is no consistency in their selection, where the size of the face plate is always a 1/4" larger than the nominal, and the neck is an 1" less. They all just vary.
Add in the fact that I need this family on walls and on ceilings for the projects I want to specify it on. That got me to thinking maybe it's time to play with a parameter type that I'm novice on. Which is the Nested Family Type Parameter.
My thought is make the diffuser as a Generic Mechanical Family first. Then create the different sizes I'd be using in that parameter type. Then insert the Generic Mechanical Family into both a wall hosted and then a separate ceiling hosted family. That way it can cut the necessary voids and perform where needed. But I only have to do the main modelling and sizing once.
That being said, I'm having trouble finding any videos or instructions on how to setup this kind of nested family so that I can say I need a 10x4 and it just updates the family to the right family type. Any advice?
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