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Let’s say you have a Generic Annotation family with about 60 different view states controlled by visibility Yes/No checkboxes. These visibility states are linked to Sheets, and the Generic Annotation …
Make your Label aligned to Top and Left. Add a long line of Invisible Lines type a little bit further Left than the label itself. Your leader will now attach at the midpoint of the Invisible Line, pro…
Very cool and advanced workaround by Jose Fandos over at Andekan:We will route around this limitation by first inserting the annotation family into another face-based family, and using this intermedia…
from the currently opened file! So if you want to copy annotation and detail elements from one Plan View to another (without having to fiddle around with filtering of selections etc), just go to: Then…
Pre-2013 sketch based stairs have the Stair Path bound to the actual Stair element. In Revit 2013 when using Component Stairs, the Stair Path becomes a separate element. Think of it as a special Tag f…
Nice trick by Darren Snook on the Revit @ Waterman blog:Revit @ Waterman: ‘Date & Time Stamp’ for Generic Annotation Families This bears some similarity to some of the workarounds I have previously po…
Let’s say you have isolated a few categories, and you have included Dimensions so that they are still visible. However, your dimensions are no longer showing the Centerline symbol text – do you know w…
No doubt you issue many PDF files to consultants, Clients, Builders and the like. Why not add a URL link to your titleblock, so that anyone receiving your PDF files can jump directly to your webpage? …
Revit doesn’t want you to copy lines between Annotation and Model Families (see below) However, it can be done. This is the workflow to copy lines from Annotation to Model families: Copy lines from th…