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troubleshooting techniques

Now that you have created a basic component and explored some of the fundamental modeling
techniques, let’s explore some additional methods and troubleshooting you might experience
working on a real project.

Doing a Visibility Check
In the c14 Desk Project.rvt file, open the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog box and
expand the Furniture category. Uncheck the box for the Tables subcategory, and then click OK
to close the dialog box. You’ll notice that only the tabletops have been turned off in the drawing
area, as shown in Figure 14.47.

Figure 14.47
Visibility settings
applied to a
subcategory

Open the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog box again and uncheck the box for the
Furniture category. Click OK, and you will see that the desks and even the table legs have been
turned off in the view. Even though the nested table leg family was created with the Generic
Model family template, it will behave according to the main category of the host family;
however, this does not apply to subcategories. Let’s go through the process to fix the problem:
1. Go back to the c14 Table Leg family, and from the Create tab, click the Family Category
And Parameters tool. Change the Family Category to Furniture, and then click OK.
The family category must be changed to Furniture to avoid confusion with object style
subcategories. If you create a subcategory under Generic Models named Tables and then
reload the nested leg family in the table, there will be two separate subcategories named
Tables.
2. Switch to the Manage tab, and then choose Object Styles. In the Object Styles dialog box,
click the New button and name the new subcategory Tables.

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