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Please help, I have created a stud wall family but I do not know how I can repeat the stud at 16" centers for the duration of the wall length, any help would be much appreciated.....I am new but learning, I have attached what I have at the moment.....Thank you
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i won't problem solve it but I'm thinkin you should just ad a formula to the family to repeat the stud for every 16" of length.
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thank you for your input, I will try work on that.....not worked on formulas yet so will be interesting,,,,,, do you know of any tutorials that i could use to familiarise myself with the methods used....
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Why are you doing this? Nobody normally shows studs in a wall and obviously, they don't need to be a model element since you can never see them. If you want to show them in a plan view, I would suggest that you use a repeating detail. Very easy to do.
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Our company supplies and manufactures pre-manufactured steel stud walls and for presentation purposes I have been asked to create a phased presentation showing the slab to stud work to completed projects..... hence my headache......I'm reading about formulas at the moment not sure how they are entered gramatically though.... any advice on how to repeat the stud would be most appreciated... newbie trying to move forward.... by the way this is a great site..... I had been using autocad for years and this blows that away....potential is amazing... feel like I have been in a cave forever.....
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If you really do want to do this, you need to think about how your family will behave. It has several "states". 1st- if the length of the wall is <16" 2nd-if the length of the wall is >16" or equal to 16" You need to have one stud for the first state, and you control it's visibility with a yes/no parameter. The equation for the yes/no parameter would be the folowing: Length < 16" the 2nd state will be an array of studs. Their visibility will be controlled by a yes/no parameter with the following equation: or(Length=16", Length > 16" It's number of elements will be controlled by a parameter of type integer, with the following parameter: if(<2nd state's visibility parameter typed here>, Length/16", 2) The above should do it, I assumed that if the wall is 16" that you will have a stud at the beginning and end. Also assumed that if the wall is <16" you will only have one stud. When you create the stud array, check the Last box, instead of the second box on the options bar (just above visible work space).
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^ what he said! 
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Since you do have to model this, this might be a place to use a curtainwall. Place your studs at the mullion lines - top & bottom runners for the top & bottom mullions.
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Try this
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THANK YOU DEBO, the file works great for altering the length and the stud ctrs...... only problem the family has is when I try add the height parameter again it conflicts with the other constraints for some reason.....I'm guessing that the array can not be set? Anyway if anyone has any ideas on how to finalize this I would be most appreciative...And Debo thanks again for the help P.S. TABEST I'm sure the formula would work but I am too new to put it all together....however I will keep with it and figure it out at some ppoint....Loving Revit "Architecture 2008"
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"Our company supplies and manufactures pre-manufactured steel stud walls and for presentation purposes I have been asked to create a phased presentation showing the slab to stud work to completed projects..... hence my headache......I'm reading about formulas at the moment not sure how they are entered gramatically though.... any advice on how to repeat the stud would be most appreciated... newbie trying to move forward.... by the way this is a great site..... I had been using autocad for years and this blows that away....potential is amazing... feel like I have been in a cave forever....." This is what I do now! I used Revit in an Architecture Firm and it was fabulous. I am gettin close to persuading my newest company to get this. This thread is great. I also found this amazing plug in for Revit, in which I anxiously await to try!http://www.strucsoftsolutions.com/mwfpro.asp
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I have used the MWF framer for the trail version maybe a year ago and found it was a bit buggy and slow. and the company contacted me later asking to provide feedback said they would be making improvement for their product. I wonder what the latest version is like now.
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I've tried different things...and I recomend using curtain walls, and make mullion types based on the different studs. I found this to be the most easy and flexible way of making wall framings.
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I've tried different things...and I recomend using curtain walls, and make mullion types based on the different studs. I found this to be the most easy and flexible way of making wall framings.
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Thats a good work around, but still a "work around"
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