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Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:25:45 PM | Electrical Clearance

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good afternoon. i'm using Revit 2014, and have an issue with clearances. the project that i'm working on, i'm modeling the Electrical as part of a coordinated effort. i have taken the items (VFD's, Panels, Light Fixtures...etc.) and added a clearance to them. i created a new subcatagory in the family for Electrical clearance, and have it working in revit. it looks right, and i can strech them up and down to the floor and ceiling. when i export the 3d view to either .dwg, or .nwc it makes the equipment, or light fixture, and the clearance into one item with only 1 layer. the BIM coordinator for the project wants to see it in .dwg with a seperate layer for the clearance, so that he can have visibility control to make the clearance semi-transparent and the item solid. i have looked, and can't figure out what is going wrong. any ideas?


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Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:34:10 PM | Electrical Clearance

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Vinny - I don't do MEP but I think your problem is category..... What if you make this item a sperate nested family in a different category.  You could run a quick test by loading a simple family into yours ... doesn't have to be correct for the test.


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Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:38:42 PM | Electrical Clearance

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thanks i'll give that a try.


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Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:16:49 PM | Electrical Clearance

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i still don't know what i'm doing wrong. i started with a Electrical Equipment family model. i then inserted a Electrical Devices family item into it. then i loaded that into my model and exported that to .dwg. it still only has the electrical equipment layer in autocad. 


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Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:27:07 PM | Electrical Clearance

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Was the nested family shared?


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Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:51:33 PM | Electrical Clearance

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i don't think so.... do i need to use shared parameters to make this work. i don't have much experience using them.


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Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:58:02 AM | Electrical Clearance

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here is the family that i'm using. please take a look at it and see what i missed. i looks and works great in Revit, but only has one layer in Autocad. can i adjust how it exports to Autocad?



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Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:38:04 AM | Electrical Clearance

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Vinny

Change your cad export setup.



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Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:07:24 AM | Electrical Clearance

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By George, that worked.. thank you so much. i knew it had to be a simple fix. but i was racking my brain on it.


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