rotate and move componant in a family

[philsogood]

hi

i'm creating a new family of a foot which will be included in another family

i'm using reference plane to rotate my foot as i did it in another family and it woirks very well (even with a 0° angle!!)

the foot should be bind to a reference line but when i change angle it fauiled... and i don't know why....

i'd lmike to mode the foot according to the 2 refelrence line

cn you tell me why the constraints are not satisfied??

grrr what's reaaly boring is that on the other family i hadn't any issue!!! grrrr

Phil

[iainsavage]

Part 5 of this link by @fabiosato might help you

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-mep-forum/in-dire-need-of-help-rotating-a-component-freely-in-3...

[philsogood]

Hi Iain

well, Fabio solution works but "mine" (that i read somewhere on the web) works with 0 degree

the foot need to be rotate but need to be to a length from the center of the family and i didn't succeed

... work on progress..

well i found a solution

the hosted family wasn't "work plane based" but was "always vertical" I check and uncheck these properties and now that's working!! 🙂

Phil

[curtisridenour]

I looked into the family a bit and wanted to see if I could get it to rotate through -360° to 360° without breaking and without using Trig Equations. I think I succeeded.

I moved the Radial parameter down one nested level and created a profile for the column sweep. Then I had to add a hidden Circle to keep the entire nested family have its centroid at the origin.

thanks for the fun family problem.

[fabiosato]

Hello,

If you use profiles to create the solids, you can use vertical offset, horizontal offset, and rotation angle in the sweeps