My custom door family only works in a range of dimensions.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have created some custom door families, they have different detail levels, dimensions of the leaves and fixed over panels can be modified through parameters etc. and everything works fine, but I realized when I try to exceed some specific limits, my constraints becomes invalid. I can understand it is logical if I try to decrease the width of a door more than I should, because there are leaves etc. But I can not understand why I am not able to increase the width after a limit.

I am attaching an example custom family. what I found I can not go further that limit of 2400 mm for width. do you have any ideas?  

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

There are many errors so diffucult to pin it down.

What I see is that there are many constraints going from geometry to geometry. It is advised to constrain reference lines or planes (creating a frameweork) and then constrain the geometry to those reference lines/planes.

If the family is getting to complicated with lots of constraints and reference planes then you might consider making use of nested elements.

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

I'm finding numerous issues related with the way the Symbolic Linework is constrained and driven. Delete all the Symbolic Linework and the Family seems to flex fine in the Project.   

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your replies. I removed constraints, unlocked all alignments. Then scaled leaf sizes as much as i need, re-created constraints and alignment lockings. now my upper limit increased to new dimensions. thank you again for your help.