Nest pile cap families and add symbolic lines

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When creating families,

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sometimes you may require center lines and other details such

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as hidden lines to be displayed in certain views.

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For example, our piles will need to be shown in hidden detail in a plane view.

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Symbolic lines can be added to planes, sections and elevation views.

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Object styles allow the user to create additional sub categories to

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control line weights and line colors in both projection and cut.

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This is very useful when additional symbolic lines are required or

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when different elements of your family need different display settings.

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We're going to begin by naming a reference plane in the Innovation Review

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in the project browser. Go ahead and open up the front elevation

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in the front elevation.

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We'll select this bottom reference plane here which

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is representing the underside of the pile cap.

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We're going to name this because we want to host in our pile family onto this.

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So we'll call this one here

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pile host.

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I'm now going to switch back to the reference level playing view

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and now we'll see that creates ribbon

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and we insert a component.

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Now, of course, no components are currently loaded into our family.

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So here we have the option of saying yes to load one. Now

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we'll navigate to our cast in place, pile underscore I dot R fa

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and click open

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notice on the context ribbon.

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The placement option is currently set to place on face.

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We're going to place on a work plan

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and on the options bar,

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you'll note here that we can actually set our reference plane.

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Now, this is why it's very important to name a reference plane.

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If they're not named, they will not appear in the pull down list.

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So here we can select pile host

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and now we can place down our four piles.

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Once we've placed down those piles,

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we'll select modify on the ribbon or we can

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press escape to come out of the component command.

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Now, these piles will need constraining to the reference planes

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to do this. We can select the pile.

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We can then just drag that pile off of its current position

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and then carefully drag it back onto the reference planes.

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So they're both highlighted,

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you'll then notice that we can then constrain

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the pile both in the horizontal and the vertical plane.

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Another method is to select the modify ribbon

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and select a line.

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We can then select the reference plane

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and the centerline of the pile family

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and then constrain

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select the vertical reference plane,

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select the vertical plane in the pile family. And again, constrain

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to cancel the command, we'll select, modify on the ribbon.

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It is quicker just to use the drag method.

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So I'll drag the family off of the reference planes

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and then back over them

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and constrain both of the constraints

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and will do the same for the final Pyle family.

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Now, once we've done this, it's very important that we test the family.

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This is called flexing

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to flex the family on the modify ribbon. We'll go ahead and select family types

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in the family types dialog box. You'll note here, I have pile space in ratio.

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I'm going to change this to three

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and we'll click apply.

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We can now clearly see that the four piles have changed position

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if I change that to two. Perhaps

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again, you can see the whole family is flexing as expected.

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Let's return the power space into 2.5 and click apply.

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If you find that you have constraint errors here,

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you may wish to delete the pile cap length and

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the pile cap width dimensions and then apply those again.

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Normally, this would be over constrained,

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but don't forget that this is a reporting parameter.

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So we have a parameter called edge clearance.

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We also have our parameter called pile spacing,

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which is controlling the length of the pile cap.

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So let's go ahead and select OK to our family types dialogue box.