Rotate a family

[Anonymous]

Hello, 

I create this Street lamp but is not in correct direction. 

There's possibility to rotate this?

There is possibility to choose in which direction draw when open the family to create? 

Direction xz, insetad of  xy?

Thank's

[Avaris.]

I would advice to rotate it in the family. Is it a imported family or native Revit?

If imported: you can probably rotate it in an elevation.

If native Revit: you have to model it again in the right direction.

[Anonymous]

It's native revit. 

How can I choose the right direction?

Thank's

[barthbradley]

Spacebar Rotate not working? 

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Your family is modeled laying flat on the ground.  I change it to Work plane based & Not always vertical so that I can host it on a vertical reference plane in project.  It works for this one but you really should have modeled it correctly in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Please can you do a screencacast to how you rotate the lamp?

How can I find the correct plan to haven't subsequently the same problem?

I find only this model in template.

Thank's

[Avaris.]

What ToanDN did, was drawing a reference plane. You can set that reference plane as the work plane and place your model. But note that it is really a workaround. It would be better to model it correctly in your family.

Advice: Just model a lantern yourself, so you learn Revit ánd have a better family, this one is unusable 🙂

[ToanDN]

Please use what I have fixed in the Revit file and copy it around if you need. I don't have time right now to demonstrate some workaround that you only need to do one in your life. A better way is finding a correct family on the internet and use it. There are plenty of light post families out there, just google "lamp post revit family".

[barthbradley]

@Anonymous