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Hi Everyone, I have created a few families for eg a M12 bolt and it is horizontal and I want to load it into a project and rotate it in an elevation/Section so it will be paralel to the roof pitch but it will not let me rotate it, why is this? will I need to try and set up a rotation parameter in the family itself or is there a way you can rotate it once loaded into the project, maybe t a Ref plane or something. Any help would be great thanks Patty
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Families adhere to the work plane of the view that they are inserted in. So I would agree that you are probably best building in an angle parameter into the family, to give you maximum flexibility. I must say that I am intrigued that you are modelling right down to individual bolts??!!! Regards, Ian
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Edit the family and under Settings / family category & parameters, uncheck the always vertical option.
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It does sound rediculous to make 3d bolt families, but I'm finding them useful. I've attached a pdf-drawing to show the instance where I'm using them... 3d- exploded detail views. The bolts I created are "face-based" with parameters to offset either the bolt or the nut from the insert face. Hope this information is useful to you. Dan-o
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Thanks Guys I’ll give that a go, and thanks for that dano that was a great help and I liked the exploded view it looks great.The reason for the bolt families is we are starting to do a bit of 3D steel detailing in revit and we set a parameter to the bolts so that we can schedule them easily for a bolt list for the fabricator. The sections and details are working out really good as well once everything is modeled to actual sizes.I have attached a M12 bolt that we have made
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thanks Pattyceads. I like your bolt (very accurate). Mine is more abstract.
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Thanks Guys I’ll give that a go, and thanks for that dano that was a great help and I liked the exploded view it looks great.The reason for the bolt families is we are starting to do a bit of 3D steel detailing in revit and we set a parameter to the bolts so that we can schedule them easily for a bolt list for the fabricator. The sections and details are working out really good as well once everything is modeled to actual sizes.I have attached a M12 bolt that we have made
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Hi guys... I would like to download this Bolt,, witch is in the attachment,, but I can`t ?? any advice ?? Thanks Adam
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or u can just send it to me>> hadam_adam@yahoo.com thanks a lot A:dam
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Just right click on the link and save link as.... the file.
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