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Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:44:05 PM | Made a new family but cant rotate it properly

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Made a new family that needs to be able to rotate Horiz and Vert.  When I insert it, I can rotate it in the plan view, but when viewed from an elevation view, I cannot rotate it.

This is for MEP2010, and I used generic model as my family template.

I thought it was something to do with dimensioning from level 1, so I made a new ref plane, and dim from that, and it didn't work.

I then made a new family again using generic model, just made a simple rectangle, no parameters or dimensions, loaded it into the project, and it still wont rotate in elevation view.

Is there a switch or some other template I need to use?

Very frusterating.

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Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:35:44 PM | Made a new family but ant rotate it properly

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I don't work with MEP but see if this help you...

 



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Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:17:05 PM | Made a new family but ant rotate it properly

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Well, What I found out is that a general template is somehow locked to the level.  I would have thought that it would  be unbounded, as it is a general template.

I had to use a mechanical equipment template, and it allowed me to do what i wanted.

A third party tech support company spent two hours on it as they didn't know why it wouldnt work either.

It would be nice to have a description as to when certain templates should be used, and when they shouldn't.


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Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:26:52 AM | Made a new family but ant rotate it properly

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I tried this:

see attached file( I used jing to record that)

 

keypoints. the family has to be created on a rotatable host inside the family.

once you create that family it can be rotated in a project with the normal rotate command, but the angel relative to the horizontal plane can be controlled over a parameter, which is controlling the host plane inside that family.

 

did that help a little?


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Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:22:29 PM | Made a new family but ant rotate it properly

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<a href="http://www.screencast.com/t/leG4FrUHux">parametric_family_with_rotated_host_plane</a>

 

 

thats the link to my previous comment

 


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Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:32:45 PM | Made a new family but ant rotate it properly

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the upper link doesn't work ...sorry!

 

this one should be fine:

http://www.screencast.com/t/leG4FrUHux

 


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