Revit family MEP creation with electrical and conduit connectors

Bbrunetto

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Revit family MEP creation with electrical and conduit connectors

September 15, 2018, 02:37 PM

hi everyone,

I'm facing some problems to create electrical and conduit connectors on a nested family.
I created a family with electrical connector and then tried insert in a host family, but the connector dissapear.

How can I work with connectors on nested families?

Best regards
,
Bruno Brunetto
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josephpeel

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September 17, 2018, 01:49 PM

Unfortunately nested connectors dont work, you can only place them in the host family.

It is possible to make the nested family Shared and then the connectors will be visible (You can even connect to them if you use TAB to select the nested family), but this creates other problems because of a bug in the position of the connectors.
This is something that has often been requested by users but Autodesk dont seem to be interested in solving this problem.

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Albert Camus - "The innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new." Nicolo Machiavelli -"Things that are too complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple." Mikhail Kalashnikov
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