http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/ en Mon, 20 May 2013 08:51:14 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/images/misc_cadtutor/rss.png http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/ http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?79406-Parametric-copies&goto=newpost Fri, 17 May 2013 09:15:56 GMT Hoping someone can advise, I currently have a working parametric family where I have set up an array to add additional items within the component and realign everything as the numbers increase or... Hoping someone can advise, I currently have a working parametric family where I have set up an array to add additional items within the component and realign everything as the numbers increase or decrease.

The problem I have is I want to be able to reduce the multiple elements from one to many but using the array I always have at least two, reducing to one creates an error report, is there another approach I should use to achieve this? ]]> Revit General Keywordkid http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?79406-Parametric-copies http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?79356-can-you-export-a-3d-model-so-it-can-be-opened-up-in-autocad&goto=newpost Wed, 15 May 2013 13:34:24 GMT as above really, working on a project with another company, they are using revit and we are using autocad. We have requiested some drawing from them but they say they cannot save the revit files... as above really, working on a project with another company, they are using revit and we are using autocad.

We have requiested some drawing from them but they say they cannot save the revit files in a manor in which they can be opened in autocad. They have said " although we can produce autocad dwg files they will be very poor quality and require time to export"

I always thought that if you export the files as dxf they would be fine and still represent a drawing accuratly within Autocad just without the information required by revit??

Can anyone put me right or state if this is true/not true.

Thanks in advance ]]> Revit General raj banerjee http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?79356-can-you-export-a-3d-model-so-it-can-be-opened-up-in-autocad http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?79355-Exploded-Axon-view-of-a-Family&goto=newpost Wed, 15 May 2013 11:48:46 GMT Is it possible to create an exploded view of a nested family?

I have a parametric nested family which I want to load into a project and create an exploded view, I don't know if this is possible.

Alternatively I thought I could load the individual family parts into a project and then add the parametrics but unless I'm mistaken this isn't possible as the project file doesn't allow dims to be labelled to ref planes - is this right?

Oh how I wish I had been allowed to have some training!!! :cry:

Are there any good tutorials out there to help with this sort of thing? ]]> Revit General Keywordkid http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?79355-Exploded-Axon-view-of-a-Family http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?79315-Identity-Data-from-child-to-parent&goto=newpost Tue, 14 May 2013 11:09:34 GMT Continuing with doing Revit the hard way... I have been adding data to my child/nested families, purging and reloading to my parent family, this was going well until I tried adding an email data... Continuing with doing Revit the hard way...

I have been adding data to my child/nested families, purging and reloading to my parent family, this was going well until I tried adding an email data reference to a child part.

This is then added to grouped family containing several of these parts, this group is then loaded into the parent (maybe I'm pushing my luck with three levels?). I had actually used the group tool and found that the data was not visible, after considering that I didn't need the elements grouped within this mid level family (they would afterall be grouped as a single family when placing them) I ungrouped all elements, the email data now is visible in the properties, however it is not transferring to my parent.

As with my last posting I have ensured the catergory (generic) is set for sharing and I have tried Transfer Project Data but so far to no avail, I'm hoping someone will have a little gem to help me out ;)

Hoping you all can follow my scenario. ]]> Revit General Keywordkid http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?79315-Identity-Data-from-child-to-parent http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?79294-Section-cut-display-not-showing-from-family&goto=newpost Mon, 13 May 2013 14:08:09 GMT I am attempting to learn Revit the hard way, preparing a parametric model (non building related - it's food!) for a BIM talk - demonstrating that almost anything can be BIM compliant (not my idea!).

Anyway fumbling through online tutorials and a reference book I have built some families that I am loading into a single family rather than a project, I have my parametrics working and now am looking at get the families emblished with data and appropriate display settings, here is where I am currently coming unstuck.

I have edited the materials of one of my base families to include a cut pattern for sections, this works fine in the display for that family but when I update the composed multiple family the individual part is not showing the cut pattern.

If anyone has a suggestion I'd be grateful. ]]> Revit General Keywordkid http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?79294-Section-cut-display-not-showing-from-family