I have just spent the last 10 hours trying to get a simple masonry unit that was completely parametric to array into a parametric screen wall. Guess and check does not work with this program unless you have days to do anything. Not hours. The concept behind the parametrics of a model are great. I am thankful that the Revit family modelers have done a good job for the main program. Not knowing the logic behind the little video clip I watched multiple times I did not get why my copying of his process did not work all the time. I did not want to bother the revit guru's available to me at the time I was working this evening b/c it was not during their designated office hours and that would be disrespectful. I failed at that. Chris and I could not get the model to array parametrically in both directions. i brought the initial masonry unit model into a line based family to allow it to array a certain number of whole units down a designated length. i thought then I could import it into a new family afterwards to array it vertically. Nope! not to my knowledge anyway. I then started taking the model steps backwards and trying to work back up in different manners. first trying to array in the line based family, then when array didn't allow it to stay parametric I tried copy. then in an attempt to not fail for friday's pin up i did a step even further backward and attempted both ideas in the initial model phase to attempt a crude parametric. NOPE. FAIL. so in the end a 4am I gave up and copy and pasted a picture of what looked like what i was attempting so the point would get across. not my finest hour.
Would like to learn the logic behind the family parametrics. SAD.
Aaron
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