Unwanted element visible from nested family

[wolthar]

Hi,

I searched the Autodesk forum but couldn't find a match to my problem.

I'm a mechanical engineer and create family's for the company I work for. This time I made a Duct Fitting family called 57_IDG_Prefab standleiding middenstuk with some nested family's. Everything works, that's not the problem. The problem is when I load the 57_IDG_Prefab standleiding middenstuk into a project, it shows a little vertical line next to it. After some research I discovered that the nested family's 57_IDG_vloerhuls i causing it. I think it's the height dimension but still i can't manage to find it and solve it.

Could someone here take a look at it and tell me how to solve it?

Thanks in advanced!

[L.Maas]

From your screenshot, what seems strange to me is that you have the family placed three times but only see one line. If it is a family problem I would expect to see three lines.

I had a quick look but can not seem to reproduce the issue. Maybe you can upload the relevant part of the project (Revit version?) where the issue occurs?

[wolthar]

Correct. I only posted 1 of the 3 family's. Here's a project (RVT 19) with all 3 family's. 

[wolthar]

I changed the family 57_IDG_Vloerhuls nested family in to non shared, and then it dissapeared. I can't remember why I once made thes family shared. I have to find out again in the future what for trouble it will give me.

But still I can't figure out why it dissappeared when i change it to non-shared..

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

It is a weird issue, look like a bug to me. I did some testing and found the following. The issue is indeed in the NLRS_57_DUF_UN_vloerhuls_IDG.rfa

In that family you have connectors These connectors inside the project will create a centerline. For some reason this centerline is completely out of place. You can test this inside your project when you go to visibility graphics overrides and switch off the sub-category "centerline" from the category "duct fittings" the line should dissappear.

There seems to be several solutions to get rid of this line in the view (not extenmsively tested):

1-As mentioned in visibility graphics overrides hide the centerline subcategory from duct fittings.

2-Remove the duct connectors from the NLRS_57_DUF_UN_vloerhuls_IDG family.

3-Remove the shared setting from NLRS_57_DUF_UN_vloerhuls_IDG.

It looks like the sharing of this family creates this weird behavior.

You also might try to remodel this NLRS_57_DUF_UN_vloerhuls_IDG family and see if the behaviour dissappears

See which works best for you.

[wolthar]

Hi Louis,

Thanks for the suggestions. Will definitely try it. As I mentioned, the sharing had a reason long time ago. So long ago I don't even remember. Maybe remodeling the family is the best option for it.

Thanks for the help!