Forums >> Revit Building >> Technical Support >> Strange behavior: family automatically snapping to other family....?

JeroentjeM

active

Joined: Thu, Jul 29, 2010
86 Posts
No Rating

Hello, 

see the attachment. I have a floor plan, with a steel beam to carry the floor at the stair-opening. 

I place several line-based families over the floor to represent the floor elements itself. (The contain voids that will cut the holes in the floor). This family snaps to the family of the steel beam. I don't want this, because the floor needs to have a spacing to the steel beam. 

How can I prevent this auto-snap? 

I hope you get the picture, otherwise look at the attached picture. The red family is the steel beam. The blue selected family is the cutting floor-element. The blue dot which represents the end of the line-based-family keeps snpaping to the steel beam. But I want it to be at the grey floor boundary. 

Have changed several things like change category, make lines non-referenced etc. 

Thanks for any help! 

Attached Images

This user is offline

JeroentjeM

active

Joined: Thu, Jul 29, 2010
86 Posts
No Rating

Wow, right after my post I made a last effort and I think I got it. Rather than deleting my original post, maybe this could be helpful for others: It was actually in the reference planes of the floor-elements. Changed them to strong reference and I got the blue arrows on the family. Thay make it easy to change the position to the right place! 

This user is offline

Curious family behavior on different computers

0

Snapping to the center of a roof drain family - attached

3

Can I replicate the behavior of an dynamic block (autocad) in a revit family?

7

Odd Family Behavior - Absorbing .RVT file info.

6

Materials in families- weird behavior

4