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I have created an adjustable door using the family editor. I got the door to do what I wanted: adjustable thickness, width, height, swing angle, and jamb. It all works in the family editor.... so I take it for a spin in a regular project file. whoops, it doesn't work. So I re-open the door in the family editor to see what is wrong... and double whoops! what once worked 5 minutes ago in the family editor, now does not work!
Anyone else have this problem? Please help.
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I have had similar problems before. Suddenly errors pop up in the project and editing gives me even more errors. I would say that if you haven't done already, you might want to do the actual door with its swing parameter as a nested family, make sure that works fine on its own then put it in with the rest. Sometimes there just seem to be mysterious problems without a good explanation.
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There is usually a good reason why families don't work. The family editior is not for the faint of heart. The best advise to give is to build the "bones" of the family first which are your reference planes and lines. Then FLEX-FLEX-FLEX. Apply values very small and very large to see if anything breaks. It also helps to only do one thing at a time then flex so you can trouble shoot the problem as it occurs.
Add your geometry to the family once you know the bones of it work. As stated in the previous post, door will work best if you nest in the door panel. Like everything else in life, the more complex the problem the more planning it takes to solve. I like to sketch and define what the family will do on paper before even diving into the problem with the family editor.
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Thank you both... you advice is useful. I am learning quickly because of this forum.
I have solved the immediate issue, but I have to admit I really don't know how! I didn't do a nested family (mostly because I don't know how yet) And I did build the family from the bones up, flexing little by little as Tom had mentioned. What is still very strange to me tho, is that I had it working... and then when I closed the file and re-opened, it suddenly stopped working. This occurred several times, and I kept getting it to work again, just to have it break again. For whatever reason, it continued to work the last time I fixed it.
I think it had to do with the "Reference" settings. I REALLY need to learn more about these. I haphazardly messed around with these settings, and it suddenly worked.
Thank you both.
- Jon
by the way, I uploaded the working verions to the family explorer. Single & Double flush Doors with adjustable swings, width, height, thickness, and frame that automatically adjusts to the wall thickness.
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The reason it wouldn't work in the project would be the fact that you didn't test it by flexing the wall thickness in the family...
Then when you hit edit family you recieved constraint errors because the wall was now a different thickness...
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I never had a problem with the wall thickness in either the Project OR the Family Editor. I only had problems with the door swing angle and the locations of the door panels relative to the where the hinge is.
I'm not totally sure you understood the problem I was facing. My frustration wasn't so much the door I was working on, but the fact that I had it FULLY working (flexing) in the family editor, and when I closed and re-opened the file, it THEN stopped working. This happened REGARDLESS of whether or not I loaded it into a project.
- Jon
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Jon,
If you are in Boston, check with the Revit folks in Waltham to see if they are still running their Revit training from there. I checked about a year ago with them and they were running both novice and advanced classes.
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I was trying to establish whether you did fully test it to see if it was working. Many people forget to flex the wall thickness. Just checking the obvious.
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Thus far I am self taught, but I start training with them soon!
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hi jontramos, any chance you could create a tutorial of how you created your fully adjustable door please? as a recent beginner, i find the family editor a bit daunting too, and i have found revit city tutorials to be really helpful, especially by the illustrious mr spot. or maybe a series of notes? i have deduced that families that are fully adjustable are the most useful, if they can be created. so your efforts at making one could teach the rest of us slow coaches!
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