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Monday, July 6, 2009

Tutorial - Edit Section Heads and Tails

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This tutorial is in response to a thread I posted about a few days ago at Archinect.com. The common argument about Revit is that you cannot make a "pretty" set of C.D.'s because the sections, elevations, views, and callouts are all so constrained... Wrong!


Now you too can prove those CAD lovers wrong. We can create the same exact section marks they use but when we put ours in... it creates the section for us. Muwahah.


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Robert · 821 weeks ago

How about changing the elevation tags?
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Danny · 821 weeks ago

I hear you man, I love Revit and its the only thing I use, but there's one thing you CAN'T do in Revit: rotate the text in the section head to align with the section line. That was our office standard for section lines that were oriented "up and down" on a drawings.

No matter what you do, text will always be horizontal, read from left-to-right.

Please prove me wrong.
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John · 821 weeks ago

Used the opaque tip today. We are general contractors and we are doing coordination drawings hence JAR - SK1 was too big to fit in the section head. Up until yesterday (and your tip) I would have lived with it. With opaque it's a bit better. Thanks
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fulvio · 784 weeks ago

Very good! Your site is one of the best ones to learn Revit. Thank you so much, keep on!

(one humble suggestion would be to try to organize your tutorial videos categories, so it would be easier to surf, without needing to use the Search ToolBar. (like you did with the Harbor House, that has an intelligible order) But its just a detail! thanks again)
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girkey · 597 weeks ago

Danny; I have been struggling with that for years too. I have yet to find a way to get the section head text to be paralell to the section cut line no matter what the angle of the cut line. I honestly think it is a simple parameter in the programming that Revit needs to allow. Elevation tags can do this as is proven when an elevation is placed, it registers and aligns to the wall, no matter the angle, and the text follows that angle. There is a function in the elevation pointer family for "fixed rotation" that should is not checked. Unfortunately, that option is not available in the section head family.

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