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Today is my first day ever of playing with genuine parametric modeling and so far I have a fascia (circled in yellow in the attached picture) that has adjustable dimensions, but I want to include a yes/no switch to mirror it so that it can look like it's bigger brother in the picture. I can't find anything in any of my user manuals or revit help files that discusses tying Revit commands into formulas (except for array). I have absolutely zero formula / programming experience and so I don't think I'm able to imagine formula potentials very well - but I have seen some of their results on this site and I don't want to be left behind on what is probably Revit's strongest attribute. If anybody knows how to solve this problem or knows where I can find a handy online index/tutorial of basic programming syntax, I would much appreciate it. Thanks, Kevin BONUS PROBLEM: Also if somebody knows how to get shape handles to appear on adjustable families in Revit (like our fascia friend here), please let me know.
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Hello Kevin, . I have a video tutorial on how to control family sub-component visibility with the yes / no parameter type. . . Or you can just click on this link below: . I believe this is what you are looking for and it's alot easier than most people think to do this.
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Great link and video! Thank you. I realized when watching it that I can probably link dimensions to other dimensions (on the "mirrored" side of the fascia) and then just control the visibility of that side. I'm still not sure how to get the shape handles to appear in the model, but I think that the way I construct the extrusion on top of the reference lines has something to do with it. I think I may have missed a few padlocks.
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Yes, mirror it and then apply the yes/no to each side. Visibility - Right and Visibility - Left. . If you want the shape handles to work in the model: . 1. Use reference planes 2. Make 'instance' parameters to constrain those reference planes via dimensions (length) 3. Then align the extrusion edges to those reference planes (no need to lock) Shape handles should now work in the model. . No.1 mistake is making the parameters 'type' instead of 'instance'.
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Umm, yes all well and good, but it would be much easier to simply add a flip control to the family so you can just flip it as needed. In your design bar simply add a control and place it in the ref. level of the family.
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I don't think flipping is the answer. He want's to retain the original or have the option of having one side or the other or both. It's a gable end fascia condition. Outside of that the horizontal and vertical 'flip' controls is well worth mentioning.
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I got it to work! (Actually, it was a few days ago, I just forgot to update the post) Thanks to both of you for your help, especially you dgcad. Pretty much it came down to using that visibility control to hide either the left or right half of a family that used the SAME dimensional parameter to control where the reference lines sat with the extrusion sketch on top of them. Easy, huh? Serious props to you guys for making sense out of an otherwise almost completely incomprehensible system (for someone who didn't read through the whole imperial tutorial)
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Oh okay so you mean showing all in the one family rather than having multiple components in the project? Fair enough then. That makes more sense.
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