Placing Families using FamilyInstance.by coordinates

[fahd.a.attar]

Hello , I’m trying to add electrical disconnect families in the same location of the mech equipment , but I’m facing problem that all the z axis values are zero although the values exported from the mech equipment are correct with specific values not zero

[sovitek]

Hello …could you please zoom in the image, cant see whats goin here…

[fahd.a.attar]

Hello Sovitek,
Thanks for your reply and sorry for the unclear pictures.

[sovitek]

No worries

[fahd.a.attar]

if you can see above Z Values that brought from the mechanical equipment location are correct and have specific values , but when i insert my families using the same coordinates , it came with zero values for the Z

[sovitek]

Not sure but could it help you to use just point X,Y,Z instead of reference point ?

[fahd.a.attar]

i will try it but the strange that x&y came with correct values as mentioned below

[jonathan.talisman]

Hi fahd
First of all - Is your element not in the right coordinates ? I would look at getting the element you placed by looking at FamilyInstance.Location rather then Element.GetLocation
If that is not the issue - check the Mechenical Element location in the same way , could there be a location and a base offset or something like that ?
Also look at placing FamilyInstance ByPointa\AndLevel
Hope this helps

[jacob.small]

Does your disconnect switch require a host?

[fahd.a.attar]

Yes Jacob , that’s may be the problem, i will try other family and see what is the result

[fahd.a.attar]

Jacob, Thanks for you intention to help, i changed the family to generic one and it worked very good exactly at the same location of the mechanical equipment as indicated with red color.