Practice Exercise: Adjust family visibility

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This is a practice exercise solution for adjust family visibility.

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In this exercise we have two main tasks.

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The first is to adjust the family element visibility settings for

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the door handles and the second is to create a visibility parameter

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to control the door grilles.

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Let's begin with the door handles.

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I'll select each one

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and these are actually nested families

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and with nested families we can still control the family element

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visibility settings

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on the contextual ribbon tab, click visibility settings

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and this opens the family element visibility settings dialog.

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We need to de select plan and RCP

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so that the door handles just appear in front and back and left and right views.

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And then we'll also de select coarse

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and medium under detailed levels

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so that the door handles will only appear

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at the fine level of detail

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and then we can click Okay.

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And

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now we have our door handles adjusted.

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The next thing we need to do is to create a

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visibility parameter to control the visibility of the door grilles.

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So we'll begin by opening up the family types

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dialog and then we'll create a new family parameter

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and the parameter properties,

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dialog will select family parameter and for the name, will enter show grill

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and for the discipline we'll leave it set to common

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and for the type of parameter

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we need to make sure we select Yes, no,

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that way rev it will give us a check box

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to where we can control whether the grills are visible or not

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and under group parameter under will select visibility

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and for this example we are going to make

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it an instance parameter and then we'll click OK.

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And now we have a show grill visibility parameter or it's grouped under

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visibility and it has the check box since it's a yes no parameter.

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So we'll click OK.

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And then next we'll select all of the grills.

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So I'll select the ones on the front

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as well as the ones on the back.

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And we'll make sure we have four selected

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and then we'll look for the visible parameter

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and we'll click associate family parameter and then select

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show grill in the associate family parameter dialog.

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And click OK.

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And now we have just associated

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the visible parameter for the grilled geometry to our family parameter.

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And to double check to make sure everything is working.

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We can click preview visibility and turn that on.

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And now when we d select

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show grill

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and click OK.

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Those

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forms, those geometric forms should no longer be visible.

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And similarly

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when you

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select show grill

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they should come back on.

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And if so

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then you have completed the exercise

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and you can turn the preview visibility off if you wish.