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EdArch

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Hi there,

I'm designing a couple of furniture ranges in Revit 2014.

I was wondering how I would go about creating instances with drawers/doors open and closed, so far I've had to

create separate families. I have a basic understanding of how to create instances, but not had any luck with this.

See the attached image for an example

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You can have two different solids in your family for your doors - one open, one closed - then you set visibility of those based on a new parameter that you create.

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EdArch

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so for the drawers I'd just alternate the visibility settings? or would I be able to make a 'placement' parameter? or just simply create a new instance and move the elements?

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The visibility setting can be a type based or instance based parameter.  The controlling parameter might be a T/F parameter like OPEN and the visibility setting can be an IF....

Search the forums for similar threads.  Also download the families guide from the autodesk site.

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