OOTB LVL-Laminated Veneer Lumber-Section DETAIL ITEM fill region rotation

[jledgewood409]

i am trying to use the Out Of The Box LVL-Laminated Veneer Lumber-Section DETAIL ITEM. when i place this detail item in my model and rotate it the fill region stays in the same direction as it was in its original position. how can i correct this so that the fill region is relative to the detail item? i am attaching a screen shot of what i described.

[barthbradley]

http://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2018/ENU/?guid=GUID-02C84BD3-8CFC-40D4-8E21-A195A3C0BB2B

[jledgewood409]

do I need to make this change in the family fill region or in the project fill region?

[barthbradley]

[jledgewood409]

by default in the family it is set to 'orient to view'. I have tried all three options; orient to view, keep readable, & align with element. I cannot seemed to get the pattern to rotate with the element. I am attaching the family for your review

[barthbradley]

I'm not sure what you are trying to do.  The OOTB Glue Laminated Beams-Side.rfa is parametric. Can't you use that one?  It does't use a fill. It ARRAYS a Nested Detail Item Family named "Lamination"  to represent the actual number of layers of laminate. 

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

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@jledgewood409 wrote:

by default in the family it is set to 'orient to view'. I have tried all three options; orient to view, keep readable, & align with element. I cannot seemed to get the pattern to rotate with the element. I am attaching the family for your review

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A drafting pattern's Align with element only works when the pattern is used in model elements such as walls.  See pic below.  You need to use a model pattern for the detail component family if you want it to match the rotation of the family in project.

[jledgewood409]

I suppose that I could use the glue lam. my structural engineer was calling for an LVL so I wanted to represent that appropriately by using the Revit LVL.

[barthbradley]

You can copy the family and rename it whatever you like.  All the work is done for you. It's a great family. It'll be the same great family under a different name too.