Partial Hide and unhide objects in one family

[alpawar.ind]

Hi Everyone. 

Please see the attached screenshot and rfa file of lightning protection roof conductor holder clamp.  This clamp shall be installed in two ways. i.e. With the base

 

plate and without base plate. My supervision wants me to prepare two proposal which is one with base plate installation and another one without base plate installation. 

To avoid this rework i am trying to create one family which can be suitable for both proposal. However with base plate the it works.

Now the challenge is how i can hide the base plate and return the height value to 0(Zero) from 5 as shows. 

I will appreciated your support on this. 

Thank you.

[cbcarch]

Create a Visibility Parameter for the Base Plate. Load into your Project. Check on/off for Base Plate Visible.

Uncheck for the "no base plate version".

Then use an Offset from Level (or Host) of -.5 to have the version w/out base plate positioned correctly.

[syman2000]

I would add visibility and add parameter to turn it off if the base plate is set to 0. See attached.

[barthbradley]

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@alpawar.ind wrote:

My supervision wants me to prepare two proposal which is one with base plate installation and another one without base plate installation. 

Is your Supervisor wanting model all Conducto twice?  Sounds odd. It's a very small base plate (38mm diameter x 5mm thick). Barely noticeable in the view.  Maybe he's just wanting a breakdown of the components  for estimating costs.  You can do this through a Schedule.  First you need to Shared the two nested Families.  This is nothing more than opening Family 1 and Family 2, checking the Shared checkbox, and reloading the Families into the Conducto Host Family -  and then reloading Conducto  into Project.   Now you can put together a Schedule that Filters/Sorts/Groups the two components of the Conducto Families in the Project.