Working with nesting detail components

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Nesting detail components into structural families can be very useful to speed up

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the view creation and maintain the accuracy of the two D details.

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In the example shown on the left A plate girder has two D detail

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components nested to show fit it welds between the web and the flange.

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In the example on the right,

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you can see a pile cap again in plain view at a course level of detail.

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The 3d geometry of the piles is hidden in the plan view

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and the detail components are displayed,

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the diameter of the detail component is associated to

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the same parameter that the 3d piles use.

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Again. This will maintain connectivity and accuracy of our details.

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Let's begin by creating a new family

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on the home screen. Go ahead and select a new family

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in the new family dialer box. We're going to use generic model face based.

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The reason we're using this is this will allow

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us to actually host this structural opening on any

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and any face

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in the family editor.

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You'll see that we have our two default reference planes pinned

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and also defining the origin

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this rectangle that we see in the screen here is actually a face

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in the project browser. If we expand the 3D views folder and open up view one,

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we can see that this is representing the face that

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we're going to host our cut or penetration on.

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OK. Let's go back to ref

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level

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and we'll begin by setting up our parametric framework

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to create the reference planes. We'll select the creates ribbon

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and on the create ribbon, we'll select reference plane.

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I'm going to use pick lines

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and I'll also set an initial offset of 1 ft

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and we can then offset the vertical plane to left by 1 ft

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and to the right

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above

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and below

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to make the reference planes. Parametric.

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I'm going to place an aligned dimension from the annotates ribbon

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and we'll place the aligned dimension on the three vertical planes

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and make them equal

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and the same on the three horizontal planes. And again, make those equal.

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Now, here we're going to need dimensions to control the structural opening width

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and the structural opening height. So I'm going to place both of those in as well.

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We can now release the aligned dimension tool by clicking, modify.

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Let's now assign some parameters to these dimensions.

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I'm going to begin with opening width.

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So I'll select the dimension

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up on the context ribbon. You'll note here we have label dimension.

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Normally we would select our parameter from the label pull down.

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But because I haven't created any parameters, you can see this is empty.

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Just to the right of this, we have create parameter.

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So what we're going to do here is utilize shared parameters.

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And the reason we're doing this is we want

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to tag and also schedule these structural openings.

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So I'll go ahead and select the shared parameters.

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Now notice here, I'm actually seeing the structural openings.

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If you're not seeing the right shared parameter file,

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you can go ahead and select edit

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and browse to another shared parameter file.

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OK. So I'm gonna begin by selecting opening width,

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click. OK.

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And again, for the parameter data,

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you'll see that this is grayed out because

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this is defined in the shared parameter file.

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The type of parameter in this case is going to be set to an instance.

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I want to see shape handles on the width, the height and the depth.

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Let's go ahead now and select. OK.

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And you can now see our first parameter has been added.

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We'll do the sign for this one here.

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So again, we can go up to the ribbon and select create parameter.

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We use a shared parameter,

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we'll select the parameter and this is going to be opening height.

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Once again here, this will be an instance

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and we'll click. OK.

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And you can now see that's been labeled.

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Now, of course, we also need to control the depth of this structural opening.

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So in the project browser, let's go ahead and open up the front elevation

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to control the void depth. I'm going to use another reference plane.

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So I'll select the creates ribbon

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and choose reference point

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and I'll sketch a reference plane

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somewhere around here.

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We'll now go to the annotates ribbon

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and add an aligned dimension.

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Now, here,

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I'm going to make sure that I get

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the aligned dimension attached to the reference plane.

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So I'm just going to use the tab key here to allow me to select the reference plane.

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And then I can pick the new reference plane that I created here

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will place down that dimension

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and then select, modify,

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I'll select this dimension.

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And once again, I'll go to the context ribbon

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and select create parameter.

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I'll use my shared parameter file

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we select

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and this time this is going to be opening depth.

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Once again, I want this to be an instance

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I'll select. OK.

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And we can now see that's been labeled.