Test Header to match flush with external wall

[ahirani24]

How can I stretch the pipe shown in the attached screenshot. So that, the test header matches flush with the external wall of the building. (Attached screenshot)

[barthbradley]

Hard to know based on that screenshot. Can't you stretch whatever the connector is attached to?   

[ahirani24]

What do you mean by whatever the connector is attached to? How do I know what the connector is?

[ToanDN]

Do you want something like this? 

[ahirani24]

@ToanDN  yes! finally someone understood what I was looking for. Yes, I want to do what you have shown.

[RDAOU]

@ahirani24 

How did you host it? on a work plane or a face?

1. if on a face, you will need to edit the family and align the geometry property to the Ref plane
2. Otherwise host it on a work plane (floor level) and align to wall

Again this is a guess considering that one has no clue what kind of family it is just by staring at the image...but can only make assumption that is a work plane based family where it was hosted on a face and Align tool is not working because the family is bound to the face of the wall it was hosted on ... Right?

(SEE GIF BELOW for the difference between Hosting on a face or on a work plane)

If you would upload the family itself...you would probably get better answers

[ToanDN]

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@ahirani24 wrote:

Yes, I want to do what you have shown.

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If the family is a wall based then you can constrain the length of the pipes to the host wall thickness, similar to a frame in an interior door family.

However, most of MEP families are face based, workplane based, or non-host, if that is the case, create instance length parameter and reference planes to constrain the length of the pipes in the family, and change the parameter value in the project to match the wall thickness.

If you got that family from a decent manufacturer, chances are they already have it setup for you to change the dimension in the project.