Not all parts rotate

[Anonymous]

Good afternoon all,

First, I am not a Revit user - well now I am apparently (I am a C3D person), I am trying to finish a project for our company. Someone made some beams and columns for an elevated train and now I am required to do some edits. I was asked to rotate and move the model to the proper location. The move portion is not that difficult - it is rotate. When I rotate the beams - parts of them do not rotate with them. They remain where they are. Needlesss to say that is not good. I was going to group them and then group everything together, but I have read the nested groups are bad. Any thoughts on how I can fix this????

Thanks

[barthbradley]

Difficult to say without knowing how they were modeled.  Can you post that portion of the project for use to look at? 

[Corsten.Au]

Hi

seems part of the beams are modelled in-place..

make sure you select all the elements and then rotate.. ( also use " Disjoin" " if required.

Cheers

[Anonymous]

Let me figure out how to do that and I could. I have a new respect for you Revit people.

[Anonymous]

@Corsten.AuI would not be able to tell you if the were modeled in place because I did not do that portion. I did group them and attempted a rotate - same results. I attached a screen shot if it helps.

[protikkayal]

I faced same problem before with my wall and its parts rotation, I don't know the the actual solution for it, but I can tell you how I solved that.

Just turn off the 'Parts' from visibility graphics, then move and rotate the main parent object. after that turn 'Parts' again on.

I don't know is it applicable for structural beam parts or not, but you can try once.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I think I was able to get it to size down and export - still kinda big.

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

What a mess. I feel your pain.  1005 elements; 144 of them slightly of slightly off axis -- and may cause inaccuracies. Think?   

Look. I tried several approaches; one kind of worked. Here's what I did step-by-step.  Heck if I know if it'll work for you, but try it and see.  What's the worse that could happen?

1. Go to a 3D View.

2. Turn off the Import Category

3.  Zoom to Fit 

4. Set View to Wireframe

5. Window-Select EVERYTHING  is the View

6. Open up the Filter Dialog Box on the Contextual Tab and uncheck every Checkbox -- EXCEPT MODEL GROUPS.

7. Click "Ungroup"  on the Contextual Tab.  This will ungroup every  Model Group in the Project (as long a followed Step #5).

8. Window-Select EVERYTHING  is the View (Yes; again)

9. "Group" the Selection. Name it "MessyMess"  (optional)

10. Select "MessyMess" Group and pick "Link" from the Contextual Tab

11. Click on Replace with a New Project, name it "MessyMessLink" (optional) and save it.  "MessyMess" Model Group is now converted to "MeesyMessLink"

12. NOW ROTATE THE "MessyMessLink" LINK IN YOUR PROJECT.  

I would tell you to Bind the Link at this point to make it resident in the Project -- unforturnatey, Bind ain't working.  Probably for the same reasons the Elements in it couldn't be Rotated in the first place.  So, it's permanently a Link -- unless somebody can figure out how to Bind the **** thing.  

That's my best shot.  

Good Luck.

[Anonymous]

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!! That worked. I am not going to worry about them being a link - they can figure that part out.

Much appreciated!

[alejandroyshi15]

still works up to this date, very nice thank you