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So I, like a couple of other people, wanted a way to change the profile of a sweep using a family type parameter. This way you could, for example, change the profile of a door's casing using a drop down. There is no way to do this in the properties of the sweep, which was where I spent some time looking. I ended up using this method instead. First, I created a family (generic face-based) that would be the sweep for a generic door casing. I aligned the path of the sweep to reference planes whose dimension was controlled by an instance property so that I got shape handles. Then I loaded this into the door family, and repeated the process for the different profiles that I wanted. I deleted the unreferenced profiles in the casing file as I went to keep file size down. In the door family, you're then able to label the casing family using a family type parameter. I aligned the bottom of the door to the level plane, and the center of the casing to the center reference plane, then used some formula gymnastics to get the dimensions to work (see attached family files). I'm still kind of new at this, so after coming down off of my victory high, I see a few problems with this. First, if you use generic models for nested families for hardware, that could be an issue. Also, it's honestly a lot to go through to get something that may not be of great value to people. To add a casing profile, you need to change the sweep in a family, save it as something else, and load it into the door family, running the risk of blowing the file size through the roof. My boss likes to detail things to the tiniest detail, and try out different profiles, so this will hopefully prove useful in the long run. Any comments are certainly welcome.
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it would probably be more helpful if you posted a tutorial in pdf format also.
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If I were you, I wouldn't put any generic model types in my door family. Then you can change the visibility of your hardware, either with a visibility parameter or just having them show up in a medium or fine view.
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