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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Tutorial - Section Annotation Tweaks

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Ashley emailed me a question that I thought would be a nice video tip:

"Jeff,

I have just switched over to Revit 2010, and have been having a look at your Revit Website, there is lots of useful stuff on there. I was watching one of your video’s regarding editing the Section head families and the tail families for the section marks.

However I have become stumped on something and would like your help? I have edited the section mark to how I want it to look. If you see the first attachment 01. However when I want to do a vertical section mark the text won’t rotate with the section head and looks like this see attachment 02. When you go to Manage, settings you can only set on Section view head. But I would like the section head to look like this see attachment 03 and also vice a versa when the section view is flipped.

Please could you help me sort out this with a solution I would be very grateful, If you could email the possible solution to this email address that would be grateful, or if you are going to present this on your website, would you be able to let me know when it is Available for me to view. "
Click here to view the three images Ashley attached:
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Sreten · 790 weeks ago

Thanks for useful tip, but there still is a problem if you are looking in the section and elevation view in the same time. Something is not right, you can not synchronize section head direction in both views- levels and elevation. Some offices have projects standards where section head must be visible in elevation and section views.
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Andrea · 785 weeks ago

I'm trying to do something similar but I want the text to show vertically when I cut section in an elevation view not a plan view. No matter what the text seems to always come out horizontal. Please help!
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Wes · 779 weeks ago

I'm having the same problem. I got the rotated text parameters to work in plan, but it seems that in a section or elevation view, the text on a section tag will always be horizontal. Any solutions to this?
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fulvio · 784 weeks ago

they are right, if you have two different types of Sections, one for horizontal and one for vertical, every time that you change from elevation to cut they will appear the opposite of what you intended.

Is there any other way to do it?
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Leath · 757 weeks ago

Hi,

I was wondering if this matter has been resolved.

I have the same problem. I've always left the standard Revit section heads alone however it's always bugged me. Please could you email me with any suggestions.
I would be entirely grateful.

Regards,

LH.
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leat · 757 weeks ago

okay I have now seen the video.

Is there anything this kid can't do?

LOL.

nice one
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leat · 757 weeks ago

Email to lhanlon09@googlemail.com
thanks again
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leath · 757 weeks ago

I have just thought of a new issue i don' believe has been address.

This may sound a tad fussy.

When creating a section there is a continuous line from the section head to tail head. Is there a way of breaking this line. The reason for this is for detailed drawings the extra section line can confuse things. Ideally I would like to cut it so that if you are creating a section on plan the section line does not show across the building.

Can this be done?
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brian fitzgerald · 751 weeks ago

you can break the line by sellecting the little break symbol in the middle of the section line the use the blue dot grip heads to move the new ends to where you like
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Ram · 750 weeks ago

You know what's funny? Other BIM programs like Tekla don't need hundreds of blogs and teams of Revit "Specialists" to find tweaks and workarounds because their software works without it. Revit's software development team needs some serious funds...

I am however impressed with the Revit Kid. The fact that he has stuck by Revit and uses his time to find solutions to software issues is a testament to his patience and technological knowledge.
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Fallon brooks · 726 weeks ago

Great job TRK, but........ How do we make the text rotation dyamic? I have a project with multiple angles of sections. So if I need one at 9.25 degrees, I want my text to be aligned with that. Suggestions? :)
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Ogan · 709 weeks ago

the link is broken
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Adrian · 654 weeks ago

How would we be able to rotate the text in the section head famiies to any rotation value not just vertical or horiztontal?
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Jonathan Marcell · 206 weeks ago

Can we get step by step on making the parameters? Thats where Im getting lost

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