Tuesday 18 August 2015

Line Based Family Auto-Join

Line based families are a great way of producing flexible Revit components, but there is a feature that may not give you the results you are after.

When you have 2 line based families next to one another they like to automatically join with one another, this is just at feature that occurs in this type of family. The only problem is that there is no disallow join feature (like the wall tool).

The magic number is 32mm, any closer and the components will automatically join.
















If you need to have components closer than 32mm you may have to switch to a family with instance parameters, then you can get a close as you want without the components automatically joining.

2 comments:

  1. Is that real ? why not 551mm
    Most of the finish material is less that this number
    Thank you for sharing!

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  2. Is there any way to create a 90 degree bend that joins/mitres when using it in a project? I can only get straight lines, and the family intersects at a bend

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