How to edit the work plane of a family from excel strings? Workflow. Export x,y,z to excel Use x,y,z from excel te place another family. Problem with placing the families are all on the first level. That’s because the family is face based. If I use a generic family. The placing x,y,z is wel corr…

Did you try a workflow like this? [image] Place Face Based Family on Table Family @Dynamonkey This should work… LampsOnTables.dyn (128.2 KB) [image] [image] Face based families need a different method of placement.

This recent discussion may also be of interest here: [image] FamilyInstance.ByCoordinates host issue Revit You can host this face based family on a level or a plane. but the only way to control the elevation is by the built-in “Default Elevation” type property: [image] …

Set Work Plane of Family (Model face based) By Excel input

jacob.small October 30, 2017, 12:31pm 2

Did you try a workflow like this?

Face based families need a different method of placement.

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Set Work Plane of Family (Model face based) By Excel input

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