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rotating symbols with framing members inside???


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Is there a trick to tilting up a truss or elevator shaft that was laid out in plan view using the framing member tool?

Essentially rotating about the x-axis to place the elevations on the z-plane instead of the y-plane.

The framing member is used inside a symbol in both cases so that it can be replicated, but the 2d linear element of the framing member is changing the symbols into hybrid objects. Is there a means to prevent the 2d element from being generated so the framing members and the symbol remains 3d until the elements are tilted into position?

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Ah Ha! GOT IT!

Do a solid operation for each or all framing member(s) (add/subtract/intersect) and the symbol(s) will revert to 3d. At which point the symbol(s) can be rotated/tilted off the y-plane and onto the z-plane, after which the solid operation can be undone and the symbol(s) will return to being hybrids. The elevations now read as z instead of y.

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I should perhaps clarify that the symbols read and move in the x/y/z plane as expected.

The framing member inside the symbol will still be using plan view and responding to y movements that translate to z plane movements outside of the symbol's environment.

 

There is a little more cut and paste trickery required or redrawing of framing members to have them rotated onto the z-plane and elevating with changes to the z elevation within the symbol's environment to create corresponding z-plane changes outside the symbol drawing environment.

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