Rotate Revit family into any direction
Don’t you hate “Can’t rotate element into this position.” error message in Revit?
Let’s say you need to rotate element into a position in which Revit will not let you. There is a simple solution, but it includes creating additional family.
For our example we will take a book family with “Always vertical” parameter turned on. It does not matter, we do not need to switch it off.
Procedure is as follows:
- Create new Generic Model Adaptive family
- Create one Adaptive Point, click on the point
- Set “Point” parameter to “Placement Point”
- Next, set “Show Placement Number” to “When Selected”
- Load original family that you want to rotate (a book from this example)
- Place it in the new family and lock to one adaptive point plane (one is more than enough)
- Load adaptive family into a project, create instance (on a level or any other reference)
- Click on the adaptive point (you’ll need to tab it a little)
- Turn off instance parameter “driven by host”
- Rotate into any position
- If needed, set workplane on which you want to rotate and rotate again
That’s it!
Video shows it all:
Very good, this method is by far the easiest way to rotate a family in elevation which I am now adopting. If you look into solutions for this problem on Autodesk’s website you will find so many long winded workarounds for this problem (most of them either dont work or you need to input complex rules/parameters, reference planes, reference lines, constraints project base point etc… about a thousand ways to achieve a seemingly straight forward task). Thank you for sharing this valuable knowledge.
I am glad you find it useful and easy. Thank you for your kind comment!