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Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:22:04 AM | Angle Parameter moves objects?

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Does anyone know why applying a parameter label to an angular dimension would suddenly flip and/or move the object I'm trying to rotate? I can rotate the object manually about a point and everything looks good, but as soon as I label the dimension "Angle", Revit flips the object (usually 180°Winking and sometimes moves it off to the side from the center point. This is in a generic annotation family in RS2012. Thanks everybody.


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Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:38:48 AM | Angle Parameter moves objects?

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Try tying the angle parameter to a reference line (not reference plane) instead of the object. you can use the align tool to lock the end of the ref line to the intersection of a couple of ref planes. I've still seen it try to rotate the line 180° (Revit seems to like angle parameters to be in certain places for some reason), but that is a problem that can be dealt with by either just using Revit's 0° direction or creating a new parameter that adds 180°.


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Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:20:10 AM | Angle Parameter moves objects?

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Yeah, this was a detail group with a reference line embedded in it that I was dimensioning to, to try to force the object to rotate with the reference line. Would that be the best way to get a bunch of lines to act as one object for manipulating together with rotations, offsets, etc?

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Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:32:22 AM | Angle Parameter moves objects?

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A detail group might work, but I wouldn't make the ref line part of the group. The best route I have found for rotating objects is to make everything that needs to rotate a nested family. In your case it sounds like you might just be rotating symbolic lines, so I would try making them in a detail component and nesting that in your main family. Then lock that to your ref line.


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Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:13:20 AM | Angle Parameter moves objects?

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also, align and constrain your nested family AFTER adding the angular paramter to the ref plane/reference line.


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