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Warchitect

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So Im using this hand sink.

it looks good in the family editor, but when you host it to a wall in my project, it embeds into it. and changes shape slightly. 

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how do I fix this?! why does this happen. One sink is going to make me spend 2 hours trying to fix it...

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I opened your model file.  FYI its saved in a 2019 "Pre Release" format... When i saved back - it's now the new 2019 format.  

so.  here's what i did.  I dragged your wall.  half the stuff in the family was using it as a reference plane and half stayed put.  Since there are 0 parameters set up, I dissociated all the parts with their work planes.  If things were parametric you don't do this - mainly because you lock your planes and set it up smart.  this family was not done that way.

My steps:

• Disassociate all parts from their work planes (you can check it by dragging the wall in the family when no parts move)
• Group all the model items in the family
• Add a reference line (not plane) at the back of the sink inside the group
• Unpin all reference planes
• Deleted unnecessary refence planes (for tidiness)
• Lock the two required reference planes (you'll know because you can not delete them) to the face of the wall.
• Lock the reference line you added in the group to the face of the reference planes

Bam, it works.

I used to think that the reference planes always drove insertion points (when marked origin) - but when it's wall mounted - it's the face of wall.  and when I lock my reference planes to face of wall, it is always flush.

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THanks a lot! Ill try it tomorrow.

I did DL it from this site, or some other (can't remember) 

THanks again!

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