How To Make A Family A Floor Based Elemetn

If you want to place the face based family somewhere other than a face in the properties palette deselect work plane based.

How to make a family a floor based elemetn. For particular object it s not a big deal just calculate the offset value change the level and enter new offset value the object will go to the same place it were. In this blog we will share quick tip on how to use model face based revit families to make cuts in your elements. It is very easy to cut elements using face based families. The template serves as a building block containing the information that you need to start creating the family and that revit needs to place the family in projects.

So if you ever have a hosted family and you want to change the hosting you can use the copy monitor trick to turn it from a wall based or a floor based or a ceiling based to face based. When you create a family you are prompted to select a family template that corresponds to the type of element that the family will create. How to convert ceiling hosted family to face base family duration. Changing reference level of revit family instance can be painful especially if you do not want to move an element just change the reference.

So if you ever have a hosted family and you want to change the hosting you can use the copy monitor trick to turn it from a wall based or a floor based or a ceiling based to face based. Convert a hosted family to face based or non hosted family. Tips tricks and troubleshooting by paul f. Review these template descriptions to decide which template to use for the family.

This is a short excerpt from revit. You just need to use model face based family template create parametrized or just any form of the void and load it to your project. Revit wall hosted family to face based family trick in past few day s i got some replies on this post that they are not able to copy the linked families this was a issue about family categories.