Thursday, June 18, 2009

Day 14

Today, Adam Wallen taught us the fundamentals behind Families, in particular in door families.

Fundamentals of parametric families

Create reference planes to constrain family elements

For door and window families, make sure the opening cut is large enough to encase your family (to get to opening cut go to the edge of the family and press tab until you get it)

Add parameters to dimensions to make family types

When family utilizes parameters effectively, the family can be scheduled

WORD OF WISDOM FROM PAT CALLAHAN

Before beginning a family think about what you want to accomplish when building the family.  This may require you to constrain proportions of different elements in the family or create parameters for those elements.  Think about how one element needs to move with its hosting element and how you can accomplish that.

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