It's an amazing video!. I am a jumior Structural Draftsman and I subscribe and watch your video session all the time when I am stuck with something. I appreciate your effort!
It would be helpful if you opened the Family Types Dialog box so that we can see the whole Formula that you are inputting, if you don't want to make the dialog bigger for whatever reason, you can make the value column smaller.
Great series. Very helpful. Could you please show if we can make a parametric array in which the last element is a part of the first element. For example, I need to fill a room with tiles of fixed dimensions and I need 5.3 tiles on one side. Is it possible?
Its not possible within a single array unfortunately. You would need a spare adjustable tile on the end that fills in the excess left by the arrayed tiles.
@@AussieBIMGuru Thank you so much for the answer. As you know the new element appears when the length increases by 50% of the element length. Can we change it so that it appears say, when length is 70% of element length? for example only 5 tiles of 1m in length of 5.6m but 6 tiles in length of 5.7m.
@@AhmadChesti yes you could do this using a formula for the count with a max spacing, where you use fixed spacing and an excess instead of equal spacing. It's mainly just a matter of drawing up your goal and applying some algebra to determine the needed formulae.
So I tried this out with the shelves. But snapped and locks the Width and Depth of the shelves to reference planes. It didn't like it. Nested families never seem to want to stay locked to reference planes in my experience.
@@AussieBIMGuru ok so I locked the origin planes and then controlled the shelf with a formula. eg = Width - ( Carcass Thickness * 2) Seems to have worked. I don't know why they can't make these things more logical and user-friendly.
@@ScottValentine yeah there's quite a lot of idiosyncratic aspects of family creation in Revit; takes time to come to terms with all the little tricks and workarounds! Once an element is arrayed it can't be constrained by more than one reference plane in any one direction unfortunately.
Vertical alignment would be similar to the way i did the bookshelf. The helical pile would be difficult to constrain, it would require an adaptive/conceptual form because the blade is swept in 2 directions.
Have you discovered a way to make arrayed nested families change their height as the array increases in length?( The first in the array is length X, then the next is X+100, third is X+200 for example)i am fighting with this concept currently. It's for sheet piling, I have set up a family that arrays them, and all their lengths can be changed and rounded to a standard size. But i'd like to be able to increase the length of the sheet as the array progresses (for example an embankment that gets steeper and requires longer piles) and control it with parameters do you think it's do able? Could adaptive families be the answer?
Adaptive families would be needed here or a dynamo script for parametric placement. Unfortunately arrayed objects generally have to be the same in all aspects including spacing.
@@vinayck855 I don't make videos currently due to time limits but I added a ladder here that follows this principle. It relies quite heavily on trigonometry to work: github.com/aussieBIMguru/Revit-Files
Try x0.5 or 0.75 video speed. I have quite a few viewers who find this helps. Unfortunatelt I only get limited time to record, but I have worked on my diction a bit more in recent videos since this one.
