Snapping an element inside generic model based on two levels

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Hello everybody!

I'm beginner in Revit, please bear with me if my question will be annoying.

I'm trying to create a flat 4mm thick panel using the family called "Metric Generic Model two level based.rft".

This panel should serve as a filling for aluminium frame (which looks like on the screenshot_1).screenshot_1

The frames, in turn, are parts of the walls (which you can see on the screenshot_2).screenshot_2

The idea is to force Revit to apply the family's (file "PVC4MM.rfa") vertical offsets (shown on the screenshot_3)screenshot_3

so that after importing the family to the project (file Octanorm profiles.rvt") my panel will have offsets 44 and 64mm from the "Level2" and "Level1" correspondingly (like shown on the screenshot_4).

screenshot_4

The problem is that the panel after importing to the project automatically snaps to the upper and lower levels ignoring offsets of 44 and 64mm.

How to reach required result?

link to the initial files

Thank everybody for help in advance,

Yehor

[d.avalishvili · Accepted solution]

in new file your PVC4MM works well. (but its structural column not generic model)

and in your last picture you have selected wall not this model. so it behaves accordingly 🙂

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

There are some confusion from what you posted.

1. Screenshot #3 shows a structural column family, not a 2-level generic family

2. Screenshot #4 shows a Wall, not the family you mentioned above

Anyhow, why don't you use curtain wall to build this?  It comes with mullions and panels already. You can have different mullion types for different sizes.  Same with panels.

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Thank you, yes now I understand that I confused basic families somehow from the beginning.

[mail.kylab]

Thank you for your answer. Yes, obviously there was a confusion of choosing a proper basic family from the very beginning. I've created this PVC4mm based on "Generic model two level based" once again and it works properly now, like I wanted.

Concerning the curtain wall... It would be absolutely perfect for me to build walls using tool "Curtain wall", I've tried already. The most efficient thing that it allows to build walls automatically but there's one drawback: as I understood it's impossible to have different detail levels of mullions (coarse, medium and fine), and for me it's critically important.

[ToanDN]

It is possible if you build the mullions into the custom curtain panel families.