I'm trying to create this line based family where it will place the number of full-length panels and then place another 1 of the families but just cut the family off where the line stops.
I'm thinking that I may need to create an If-then statement to have the line edge cut the family but I don't know if that is even possible.
Attached are the 2 families
Thank you for any help
See if the attached file helps you.
@AustinMcCollum wrote:
that is what I want the equation to do....if that makes sense
mmm? Nope; doesn't make sense. What's the red fill and line represent?
@AustinMcCollum wrote:
I'm trying to create this line based family where it will place the number of full-length panels and then place another 1 of the families but just cut the family off where the line stops.
I'm thinking that I may need to create an If-then statement to have the line edge cut the family but I don't know if that is even possible.
Attached are the 2 families
Thank you for any help
Why not simply use a curtain wall for much more flexibility?
@AustinMcCollum wrote:Your Wall cladding family was exactly what I was wanting.
Just did that one for another member recently. Check out this discussion:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/sheet-array-with-1-help/m-p/9652467#M291094
Our interiors ladies want the category of this family to be Specialty equipment and they don't want this family to show up in plan but only in elevation.
I never thought about using a curtain wall family to make this, but maybe that would be easier.
You can make cw panels not show in plan I suppose, although category is somewhat more difficult if you really have to put those under specialty equipment for some reason. You could model it in-place in this category or with the line-based family, I guess you have some options...
You are right that to achieve that you are going to need an if/then statement to create the "width" of the parameter with, I'd guess, a few calculated parameters for the entire length, number of whole repeats, and then the remainder.
The curtainwall idea is also a good one, with the challenges mentioned below. I'd look at employing a system that allows for the naming of the curtainwall system and the panels themselves as named something like 'specialty equipment' or, if needed, more granular information. Then create a standard view filter to help control the visibility - but it depends on the flexibility that you need and whether you are wanting quantity takeoffs, etc.
One challenge of the curtainwall system is that it is, by design, flexible - so that curtain wall panels can be whatever size you want them; so if it is a commodity item that you are trying to calculate, it would infer or allow a greater amount of flexibility than is possible (i.e. panels come in 2' increments but it was modeled as 7'-4" tall) - it's the same challenge we had/have with door panels in curtainwalls rather than using a door family in a wall-panel.
@alexanderc wrote:Then create a standard view filter to help control the visibility - but it depends on the flexibility that you need and whether you are wanting quantity takeoffs, etc.
If you don't want to see it in plan you can simply uncheck the panel families' visibily settings not to display in plan views...
Element visibility settings
I'll have to ask some more questions to see if there is a need for sloping the wall protection or anything else that would make using curtain walls.
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