Hello Revit Gurus,
I'm relatively new to Revit. I use it at a large Architecture practice, but am now embarking on a wiki-house style self-build and so am learning fast. My Revit model is essentially an assembly of curtain walls with curtain wall panel families. The curtain wall panel families are themselves assemblies of nested Generic Model components. In the project, I'm using curtain walls for basically everything - ie, floors, walls and roof.
The problem I'm finding now that the model is becoming more complex with multiple families and constraints etc is that I keep getting errors when I tweak a family and reload it in. It is incredibly time consuming to keep troubleshooting and in many instances - when I just cannot see what is causing a constraint 'not to be satisfied' - remodelling from scratch.
This time, I have a nested family component that keeps giving me an error message about one of the dimensions not having a valid value. In the nested family and the host family all parameters are working just fine. I have remodelled the nest family once and it worked, then with another unrelated tweak, it again showed me the same error. Altering some unrelated parameter in the family seems to fix it, but then it will inevitably break again at some other point.
My question is this:
Do revit families just acquire issues for no solvable reason? ie, a glitch or a bug? If so, there's just no point in me carrying on trying to fire-fight and I might reconsider the software I'm using. I know for other wiki-house style construction systems people are using Rhino and grasshopper. I chose Revit as I've grown to know it and enjoy it at work. But, if families just 'break' for no reason when there are too many constraints due to bugs/glitches, I'll need to think again.
I've pasted a few screenshots below for an indication of what I'm talking about.
Any thoughts on this would be massively appreciated!
