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Here's a ringer for you. In short: Can you lock or apply perm dimensions to [reference plane] intersections? I am building a parametric family for some trim elements that will be applied to the exterior. The front face to the back plane was easy as the reference planes are parallel but I am having trouble applying a dimension to the 45 degree faces. I thought I was close with a work-around but not being able to lock anything that isn't parallel is driving me nutts. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. PS: tried to attach a 'print' of what I am working on but you can't see the ref lines anyway.
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you can turn them on in the print options or you can do a print screen shot
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Thanks.  Here it is as a .jpg via a screen shot.
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Note that some of those other Ref Planes and Dims are just my attempt at a work around, not essential to the final solution.
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hmmmm, not positive if this will help. have you tried using ref lines instead of planes? if you place 2 reference planes parallel, then draw a reference line from point a to point b on the reference planes and lock the line to the plane, then the length should adjust accordingly. It looks like you're doing a bay window so I tried to get a family to recreate what you had there and it seemed to work generically at least. I attached two reference lines to the end of the line between the two reference planes at 45 angles and it held there. Look at the attached file I posted and see if this can give you any ideas that might help.
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Wow, this is great. Tinkering with yours and trying to re-draw it myself it appears that the order you draw things impacts wether or not things will stick. Ref planes first then ref lines works most of the time but doesn't oftern enought to be frustrating. Based on your model I made a new one that is basically the same but constrains the angles to 45 degrees (attached). Do you have any tips that make the corners of the reflines stick to eachother or the ref planes easier? Hopefully I can use this same strategy on some x pattern brackets later today (Attached).
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I think almost everyone here will agree, families are the toughest thing to learn, yet when you have it down, it's the most value to you. you might want to check out dgcad.com. he has some great video tutorials on making families and essentially everything Revit. he has some that are free, but the family ones and all the others I believe will cost you like $20 I think it was.
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I am certainly happy to be working with families in Revit. I will only be on this project through the end of the week, then its on to something else that will be more design by hand & sketchup. I know the basics about the rest of the program from training but I feel like famlies are one of the big keys to unlocking the program's true power. FYI: I found this great site yesterday. Revit Familiy Man has some free familiy downloads that are worth a look. The formulas involved in making these objects fully parametric blew my mind. http://www.revitfamilyman.com/new3revitfotwpage.htm
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