Associating parameters to nested piles

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Select one of the piles,

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right mouse click and choose,

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select all instances visible in view from the context menu.

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Now that all four piles are selected,

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you'll notice in the instance properties we can now

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start to associate things like the pile diameter,

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the embedment and the length.

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So let's begin with pile diameter. So I'll select associate family parameter

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and this will be linked to pile diameter

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notice.

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Now, once the link is established, this now uses the new size, which was in this case,

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you'll notice also that the values are grayed out and

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we have an equal sign adjacent to the parameter name.

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We'll do the same thing for pine embedment.

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And again, we'll link this to pine embedment

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and the same thing for our pile length.

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Additionally, here,

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we also need to be able to control the structural material of our piles.

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So again, here, we can associate that family parameter

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and we'll link this one to pile material.

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So you'll now notice that our piles are configured.

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And again, here we can flex the family just to test this.

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So we'll go to the modify ribbon and select family types.

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And here if I change my pile diameter perhaps to 18 inches

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and click apply,

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we can see that everything reacts and updates accordingly.

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Let's go ahead and select. Ok.

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Now, currently, we're in a course level of detail.

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If I go down to my view control toolbar here,

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and I'm going to change this to perhaps a medium level of detail,

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you'll see that our piles disappear.

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Now, of course,

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what we need to do is we need to see

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a symbolic line representing the hidden detail of our pile.

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So we're going to address that. Now,

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we've set this back to a course level of detail.

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And I'm gonna go ahead and select the annotates ribbon

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and on the annotates ribbon, you'll note here that we have symbolic line.

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Let's go ahead and select that

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on the context ribbon. You'll note we have a draw panel here.

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So in this case, I'm just going to pick the geometry that I've already got

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and note here that we can choose our sub category for these symbolic lines.

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Now, in this case here, I want to use hidden lines projection.

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So we go ahead and select this

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on the options bar. We need to set the placement plane to reference level.

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And also we will ensure that the lock option is selected.

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This will automatically constrain the geometry to the elements I pick.

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And here I'm going to go ahead and pick each half of the circle.

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Notice as I do this it's automatically constrained.

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So we'll carefully do this for the remaining piles

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and there's our symbolic lines

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to test this. Of course, we can change our detail level from course to medium.

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And we'll now notice our hidden line showing

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to understand the subcategory of the hidden lines.

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We'll go ahead and select the managed ribbon

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and on the manage ribbon, select object styles,

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you'll note here that we have object styles already configured for us.

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So we've got hidden lines and plan rep, I can create new subcategories if required

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or we can modify existing ones.

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So you'll see here. Hidden lines is currently set to a line pattern of dash.

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I'd like to change this to hidden.

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So we'll go ahead and select hidden

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click. OK?

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And now the line types have all updated.