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I am using Revit 2010 and have had limited formal training. I have the Mastering Revit Achitecture 2009 book. During my training class they went through editing families. Of course now that I'm back at my desk I am lost once again. As I recall they edited or modified families outside of the project. When I try and edit the family withing Revit the option is greyed out on the dialogue box. I am simply trying to change the profile and size of some wall sweeps and window mullions. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dan Iacovoni
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What you are saying is You are in a project, then you pick in a family and in the menu bar the option "Edit Family" is Greyed??? You can't enter in the Family???
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I have my Project open and am browsing the Project Browser on the left side of my screen. If I go down to Families and try to click on one, I can duplicate it and rename it from here. But their is also an "edit family" option which is greyed out. I am currently goind outside of Project to the RAC2010 file and opeing families their to edit them and make changes. I am trying to create new wall sweeps, but the only option that comes up in wall sweeps is "Cornice". Of course I don't like this one and want to create my own. I cannot even find "Cornice" which it says is under a sub-catagory of "Walls". This does not show up in the Project Browser.
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Ohh, now i understand, those families are by default the System families, what to do to create your wall sweep is, File>new>family and choose the right family, in this case you go to a "Profile" family, in the family you gonna create a 2D shape to your sweep, save the family, give it a name then "Load into Project", in your project you go to wall sweep and you have the "Cornice" by default, enter in the properties of that, duplicate and give a new name, then CHANGE the "PROFILE" to the new one you have already created...
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As usuall it all sounds so simple. I will try it right now and let you know how it goes. Thanx for the quick response.
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OK, I am very close now. I have created alternate profiles as you have suggested. I have loadedthem into my project and can see them in the Project Browser under "Profiles". When I activate wall sweeps though it still comes up the the Cornice as the only option and if I do a Type Parameters it lists the cornice uner System Family. How do I get this to look at my other profiles.
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Again: "in your project you go to wall sweep and you have the "Cornice" by default, enter in the properties of that, duplicate and give a new name, then CHANGE the "PROFILE" to the new one you have already created..."
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Thank you for your patients, I finally got it. Was trying to load a new family rather than add to the one already there. Thank you again for all your help.
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I just used this method to draw skirtings for a huge project. Thanks for the tip guys
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