Is there anyone who can explain in detail (or knows of a good blogpost) how the reference planes in a family behave in a project?
I have the bones of a window family created that I was testing and noticed when changing type (even just duplicating the window type) causes my dimensions to go crazy, for the most part they disassociate and in some case they jump around or are removed altogether.
I've had a bit of a headache with dims and windows when we started a precast concrete setting out drawing (only showing the internal leaf of the wall), I learned that turning of the window category and placing dimensions the wall opening works fine until you move/edit/change the window which creating the opening. I put this down to the dim being to a point on a wall that happens to be snapable because theres an edge, I changed the view template and turned windows on and all subcategories off so that I could dimension to the windows reference planes instead of a random point on a wall.
I'm now changing a few windows and the problem of dimensions disassociating is happening again but unsure why this is happening in views where I used the reference plane to snap the dims. All the windows were created based on the same family and in this instance all I'm doing is changing the height of the window and plan/elevation dims are not moving with it - I get errors simply duplicating the family without and change in geometry.
In the family I have the ref planes defining the opeing in the all set to strong or left/right/top/bottom. I'm using 2x voids associated with their respective ref planes to create different internal and external opening sizes, which is probably where the issue is coming from?
I have the bones of a window family created that I was testing and noticed when changing type (even just duplicating the window type) causes my dimensions to go crazy, for the most part they disassociate and in some case they jump around or are removed altogether.
I've had a bit of a headache with dims and windows when we started a precast concrete setting out drawing (only showing the internal leaf of the wall), I learned that turning of the window category and placing dimensions the wall opening works fine until you move/edit/change the window which creating the opening. I put this down to the dim being to a point on a wall that happens to be snapable because theres an edge, I changed the view template and turned windows on and all subcategories off so that I could dimension to the windows reference planes instead of a random point on a wall.
I'm now changing a few windows and the problem of dimensions disassociating is happening again but unsure why this is happening in views where I used the reference plane to snap the dims. All the windows were created based on the same family and in this instance all I'm doing is changing the height of the window and plan/elevation dims are not moving with it - I get errors simply duplicating the family without and change in geometry.
In the family I have the ref planes defining the opeing in the all set to strong or left/right/top/bottom. I'm using 2x voids associated with their respective ref planes to create different internal and external opening sizes, which is probably where the issue is coming from?
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