In dire need of help; rotating a component freely in 3 planes

[Anonymous]

Hello all, i am working on a smaller footballstadium and i need to place speakers in very specific locations (obviously). Problem is the speaker family i am using i can't for the life of me figure out how to rotate. Thank you in advance for any words of advice!

Here is the family as well, if that makes things easier.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Create the family as work plane based, turn off Always vertical. Place it on a reference plane in project, you can rotate it freely on that plane, that takes care fo X and Y. Now you can rotate that plane to take care of Z.

[Anonymous]

Already done all those, but didnt think about rotating the plane itself. Thank you! I´ll try and mark as solution if works

[iainsavage]

Alfredo Medina used to have a great tutorial for this but I think he’s taken the page down.

This thread may give some clues but the links to his planta1.com site don’t work I’m afraid.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/rotation-in-any-axis/td-p/3344679

[fabiosato · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I have created two videos that may help you.

Z rotation 

X-Y plane Rotation 

[curtisridenour]

@fabiosato this video was very informative. I have been making parametric families for 10 years and i never knew you could host to the reference planes at the end of a reference line. Kudos

[3260525644]

Dear fabiosato,

Thank you very much to contribute your info with no return, and it is really amazing what you have done the video. After coming back to school and discussion with tutor, who advise to rather create family drawing within the metric generic coordinate than import from download, which may hidden bug, resulting in incapable free movement in all round. Would you please share with how do you think the proposition?  Thank you.

Regards

Joseph Foeng

[ToanDN]

To rotate a family freely in all directions, create the family using Mechanical Equipment family template, check Always Vertical, uncheck Work plane.  There you have it.

[fabiosato]

Hello,

I never faced such a problem, but according to my experience using Revit, anything is possible.

Bugs appear anytime due to a specific combination of actions; at least, this is my experience. More than once, I just started from scratch, and the problem did not happen.

[3260525644]

Dear fabiosato,

Thank you to share with your opinion, like a light house luminates the path ahead of my sight.  I inquired my tutor who advised to rely upon the metric generic coordinate to draw the family, in similar to your produced video.  Actually, I would like to rather learn from you advise on how I can import the downloaded family into the coordinate and enable it to rotate and move freely in 3 planes, than do as he advised?

Regards

Joseph Foeng

[fabiosato]

Hello,

As I said before, it may depend on the category you need the element to be.

Usually, when we create a new component, the category selection and part type, if that is the case, come first.

Then we go after how to make it move freely.

[ToanDN]

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@3260525644 wrote:

Dear fabiosato,

Thank you to share with your opinion, like a light house luminates the path ahead of my sight.  I inquired my tutor who advised to rely upon the metric generic coordinate to draw the family, in similar to your produced video.  Actually, I would like to rather learn from you advise on how I can import the downloaded family into the coordinate and enable it to rotate and move freely in 3 planes, than do as he advised?

Regards

Joseph Foeng

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Use Mechanical Equipment category to create the family, Uncheck Work Plane, Check Always Vertical, then you can rotate it freely in the project.