Create family types and load into a project

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We're going to begin by loading in our newly created base plate

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on the structure ribbon, go ahead and select components

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on the context ribbon. Let's select load family

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in the load family dialog box. We'll select base plate

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and click open

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as you move your cursor over faces.

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You'll notice that the base plate orientates itself to any face we move over.

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This is a face based family.

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If we take a look up onto the context ribbon,

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you'll see that place on face is the default value.

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But alternatively, we could place on a work plan as well.

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So on the options bar,

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you can then select that work plane that the base plate is placed on.

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In this case, we'll go back to place on face.

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I'm going to place down two base plates in arbitrary positions on the floor slab.

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We can then press escape or select, modify to release the command.

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Let's zoom up on one of these base plates and select it.

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We'll now review the instance properties

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in the property's pallet.

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You'll note here that we have under construction our grout hole that

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we configured and notice here we have a very simple tick box.

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So if I now uncheck grout hole and move my cursor back into the 3D view,

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you'll now notice that that grout hole is suppressed.

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But only in that instance that I selected,

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let's say I now want to change the actual physical size of the plate.

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I can select perhaps this plate here.

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And if I click on edit type in the properties pait,

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you'll now notice that we're now reviewing the type properties for this plate

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here. If I go ahead and select a plate size perhaps of 16 inches

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and then click, ok,

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you can then see both of the plates have changed because both of these plates

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are the same base plate type.

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Typically here,

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we may want two or three different base plate sizes configured within the family.

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Let's now go ahead and create those different types.

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We'll select one of the base plates

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and up on the context ribbon. We'll select edit family

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in the family. Editor on the creates ribbon. Go ahead and select family types

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in the family type dialogue box.

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We can see all of the properties and parameters that we've been working with.

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Notice right at the top of the dialog box.

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We have type name and currently this is grayed out.

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There are no types configured within this family.

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So we're now going to build two types of base plates

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to do this. We'll select the new type button

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and here I'll type in base plate,

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one

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and click. Ok.

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And now here I can configure the dimensions for this particular base plate.

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So perhaps we'll set the plate size for 14 inches.

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If we click apply, we can then see that applied to the plate itself.

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Uh You'll notice here that we have our whole offset. I'm going to set that to

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we'll now create a second family type.

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So once again, we'll select the new type command

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and here I'll simply call this one base plate two.

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And here we can now give a different set of values.

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So for the plate size, we'll go up to 20 inches

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and we'll have a whole offset perhaps here of six inches.

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If we go ahead and select apply,

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we can then see that change applied to the base plate.

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Let's go ahead and select. OK. Here

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we'll click, save to update our family.

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And again, it's going to ask us here if we want to replace the existing file.

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Yes, we do.

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And here we can now directly load into projects and close.

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Now, in this dialogue here,

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you can see that we already have this family

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loaded into the project and we've got two options.

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We can overwrite the existing version

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or overwrite the existing version and its parameter values. In

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this case here, I'm going to say overwrite existing version and parameter values.

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And now if we select one of these base plates

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you'll notice in the properties pad it within the type selector,

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we have our various different configurations.

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So I have base plate one

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or base plate two.

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This is a fairly efficient method if we just

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want two or three different types of plate,

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created.

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Another option we have is to create project

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specific types of baseplate in this particular project

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to do that. I'll just simply select edit type

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I would duplicate.

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And here I can select base plate three.

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And perhaps in here we'll set our plate size of 22 inches.

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And now you can see here we have this

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plate just in this project called base plate three.