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mdvandenakker

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My firm uses wall sweeps to designate tiles on a wall, think bathroom or kitchen wall tiles, and I need to place the electrical outlets on the interior elevations. Unfortunately, the outlets get hid behind the wall sweeps since that are wall hosted. I cannot simply make the sweep transparent since it is a CMU wall with pattern behind the sweep. Any ideas of how to make the outlets show?

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Are you outlets wall hosted I assume?  If that family was built (or modified) with a face offset, that would work.  Another possibility is not to use a sweep for the tile but a thin wall and host the outlet on that. And finally, a split face material instead of the sweep would work.

We like to use thin walls for all partial height tile walls (finishes).

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mdvandenakker

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They are host based. And I am in no position to change the wall sweep, I am just helping on the project for today and tomorrow, then back to my project. I may try the offset approach, maybe just make an instance parameter for tile or no tile.

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Instance parameter for an offset worked like a charm. Thanks WWhub.

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