Massing Adaptive Panels - Embedded Shared Families not up to date

[Anonymous]

I have a model with massing and adaptive panels. These panels use embedded shared families for windows and other components.

My windows has four types. When I update these types in the project and then open the panel the window inside the panel does not have the latest information.

So in my project it will have 4 types of a certain name, but in the panel, the same shared embedded family will have less or different (old) types.

When I get back to the project, I can select the four types, but if I edit the panel family, its like the old version of the windows is there even if I can access it in the project.

Has anyone experienced this and found a way to update the embedded shared families in all locations? I've seen many complex errors related to this problem.

Sorry in advance, this is a complex problem and hard to explain.

[Anonymous]

There is another similar behaviour. I add a shared project parameter to the family type. It is there in the project, but when I open the family it is not there.

[barthbradley]

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@Anonymous wrote:

 I add a shared project parameter to the family type. It is there in the project, but when I open the family it is not there.

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Why would it be?  

...maybe I'm misunderstanding.  Are you saying that you added a Project Parameter to the Family in the Project with the expectation that it would be written to the Family as well?  

[ToanDN]

You need to close the family and reopen it via Edit family from the project, then all the new types added in the project will show.

[Anonymous]

@ToanDNThat is what I did. I even closed the project and reopened it (with audit) with no luck.

@barthbradley  I wish I knew!! 😮

[Anonymous]

So I rebooted the computer altogether. Opened the project, in the project the parameter is in the panel.

In the family, the parameter is not there. I then closed the family, exported the family from the project and the parameter still did not follow 😕

In the project when I select the panels and go into the Type properties, the parameter is still there. Still not there inside the family.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Okay I thought you were talking about adding new Types, not new Parameters. Parameters added in project will only appear in the families in the project environment. They don't exist in the family environment.

[Anonymous]

Ok, I was starting to wonder if it was by design or not. Thanks!!

I did confuse two problems into one however.

Basically my embedded families are not updating inside the parent families.