Scaling up a profile

[dcarlsen8GY35]

Just not understanding how to "upsize" a profile and save it for separate use without losing the old profile at it's dimensions. Help? I am trying to make the cornice profile larger for use.

[SteveKStafford]

Simplest... SaveAs > New family

If you want parametric and types for different sizes, then the profile needs to have parameters to drive the entire form. You could use a Factor parameter to define what size number 1 is. Then you can use formulas to calculate what the dimension values should be. For example, if Factor is 1 then Height should be 4 inches. If Factor is 1.5 then Height should be 6 inches. Each type can just be a different Factor value.

[Ilic.Andrej]

You just save one profile, scale it up and then save it again with a different name.... Does that work?

[dcarlsen8GY35]

I'm starting with the predefined cornice profile and I don't see that it has much in the way of parameters - I would say nothing but I'm probably missing something as I am new to this. So far I can right click it in the Project browser, select edit and then if I select the entire object in the window that it opens in, I can scale it. Once it is scaled, I try to save it and it shows in the wall profile section but don't seem to be selectable. 

[ToanDN]

- Open an existing Profile family (A) if it is not leaded in your project, or edit an existing profile family if it is already loaded in your project

- Save as to a new family RFA (B)

- Select the lines, Scale, and modify any further that you want

- Save and Load in your project

- Edit the element instance / element type and change their profile from A to B.

[dcarlsen8GY35]

Thank you all for the responses.

[dcarlsen8GY35]

Thanks - this worked. I was just missing the step of actually loading the new family in to the project. I was assuming it was there because the original family was there from which the new scaled version was made from. Once that was done then the new version was available instead of some confusing references to things I had named which were simply the original version with renamed copies.