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mfadel20

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I have downloaded a sectional overhead door from Clopay's website and am having difficulty with how it is being represented in my floor plan view.  Effectively, the doors are displaying in the floor plan view as though we are in the reflected ceiling plan view (the door spring, drum & track extensions are showing up), and it's not showing the panels.  The creator of these families mentioned something about Revit not cutting the door family, but by switching the category from "door" to "generic model" would fix the display issue (Revit would show it as cut).  Unfortunately, while this method allows the door to display properly, I would not be able to schedule or tag the doors appropriately.  I've attahed images of the family (in the family editor) and in the project for reference.  Thanks!

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The door family is built wrong.  Typically, these elements should be set not to show in plan views.

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WW strikes again!  Boy, you've responded to two of my posts over the past two days!  In any case, the springs/motors/etc. do need to be visible in the RCP, just not in the plan.  It's been my little experience that you cannot adjust the visibility of model componets of plan elements separate from reflected ceiling plans.  Is this not the case?  Can I specify those components to show in RCP and not in plan?

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I downloaded one of their doors.  These are terrible! Took a long time to covert to 2013 and once converted - they took a long time to load. 2.7 MB per family is ridiculous!!!!! 

As I said, these doors are built wrong.  The track, shaft & spring is a nested, generic family so you think that should cut.... No - it doesn't.  If you change the family to shared, then it will cut but alas - when you do that, the nested family can no longer be controlled by the host.   Below is the images of the family in a project with this nested family set to shared.

I don't have time to do this but change this nested family to category door (not shared) and see what happens.

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So i tried to change the category to "doors" but that didn't seem to do anything so I've just gone ahead and changed the nested family to be "shared", since the doors will not be changing (much) at this point of the project.  So, yeah, it's not fixing the family, but it's solving the immediate problem - thanks for your help!

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