How to rotate a family in a nested family

[Anonymous]

Hi All

I am trying to create a nested family, in which I want to rotate a family about 180 deg in vertical plane (interior) with respect to another.

It allows me only to rotate in horizontal plane but not in vertical plane.

Please help.

Thanks

[L.Maas]

Your nested family should be workplane based (vertical off) and rotation is normally done by uisng reference lines.

See THIS blog post from Alfredo Medina, talking about rotation around 3 axis which should help you

[Anonymous]

Hi Enllt

Thanks for that

I have managed to rotate the family.

I am trying to make the hinge offset from one end of the window with formula, so that the offset will be different based on the width/height.

It works perfectly in the family, but when I load in to a project, it doesn't work visually. But the value for the formula changes and the object is visually in the wrong place.

Can you please give me the hint to overcome the isse.

Thanks

[L.Maas]

Upload the family and we can have a look

[Anonymous]

Hi Enllt

Please find attached the Revit file as needed.

Please note that I am using Revit 2014 and not higher version.

Thanks

[L.Maas]

I have looked at your family. The biggest issue is that your SecoNi2440 family is hosted to the wall in the family.

This apparently creates somes issues when placing the family inside a project.

Because inside the project you have different walls with different lengths and thicknesses, which  makes it difficult for Revit to adapt to this.

Solution is to host your family to a reference level or reference plane. If you do that It should work properly.

Note: It is always good practice to constrain components to reference lines or planes.

Further you should always consider where to place your point of origin. This should be in a place that considers strecthing the family in a logical direction. So sometimes this can be a corner other times this could be the center. These things will make it much easier to constrain your families.