Revit Join Inconsistency

[dbroad]

I can get adaptive components to join and blend with one another visually in a family.  See image below.

But when the family is loaded into a project, whether as an individual object or as a curtainwall pattern, the joining behavior breaks and all the edges of the individual parts are shown. This is unsuitable when plotted.  See below.  Does anyone have a solution or have any experience with this?  Tested in Revit 2017.

[ToanDN]

Can you share the adaptive family?

[dbroad]

Sure.  See attached.  I was attempting to model a Chippendale Railing.  For this family, I left out the enclosing band because I was testing how to get the parts to show up as a single monolithic material.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Uncheck the Shared option for the nested family 2x2adaptive (you need to save a new file, load in the host family, select the original instances and replace them with the new ones).

[dbroad]

Thanks @ToanDN. Surprising how the shared checkmark causes these kinds of problems.  I am attaching a fixed version.  Will keep tweaking.  Works well for divided surfaces now. Can't use for a curtainwall panel because adaptive components can't be imported into curtainwall panels but I think I could use the same technique for the curtainwall panel design (without the adaptive points).  Probably need a better family name as well.  I was just cycling through trial and error and keeping names short.

[ToanDN]

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@dbroad wrote:

 Can't use for a curtainwall...

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Yes you can.  Create the curtain panel using the pattern based curtain panel family template.

[dbroad]

I've tried loading both an adaptive family and a curtainwall pattern family that contains the adaptive family into a curtainwall panel family and both times I get:

"While loading "<name of family>": Families created from "Generic Model Adaptive" templates may only be loaded into projects or families created from "Pattern Based", "Generic Model Adaptive", or "Mass" templates."

What am I missing?