Thursday, February 9, 2012

Families - creating profiles

Profiles (shape)
To create a profile that can be used for, eg. wall sweep profiles  for creating a new profile for a cornice, sill, railing etc
1. 2D family, create new file, family, metric profile,
2. draw something (but must be a closed shape)
3. file, save as, family, then 'Load into Project' - will load into your active project on screen

NB. There will often be multiple windows open - to see them, view, tile (or cascade), to close hidden ones 'Close Hidden'
  • This will be associated with that project now
  • Trick is you can modify this on the fly (but always good practice to save all the time)
To apply this profile to a wall sweep:
1. Select the sweep, edit type,
2. construction profile, find the one you just created and apply

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