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DavidCh

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Hi, I have a Curtain Wall Family in which I would like to draw a sort of plate in front of it (see Picture). I'd like to control the height and Width of that plate with shape handles: I added ref planes, a dimension and labelled that dimension with an instance parameter. By doing that, I get the shape handles when the Family is loaded in a project BUT when I grab it and try to move it, the geometry won't change... Is that a Revit issue: shape handles won't work for a family IN a curtain wall or something like that (in which case, is there a workaround?) Or did I just do something wrong? Couldn't find anything about that "issue" anywhere... Best regards David

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Curtain wall components are very special and work in limited ways.  What you want will not work in a CW panel, you will have to take another approach.   If you better describe what you want overall, we may be able to help.

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I was actually just asking to know if this specific approach would work in any way (functioning shape handles for a curtain wall). I already have another solution, which is manually writting dimensions instead.

I was just asked to draw it with shape handles and because I could see them appear but not work, I thought it might be a bug, something I forgot or didn't draw correctly. But thanks.

I'll keep looking into that, if anyone has a solution I'm interested!

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