Autodesk Revit Architecture

[#1]

I am using Revit Architecture 2013 and I was wondering if there is a way to make model text vertical instead of horizontal? I am creating an address stone that we put on the front of our homes but the nunbers need to run vertically.  I am creating an address stone family and would like to be able to have the numbered address a changeable parameter but if I change the numbers they go back to being horizontal.  Any suggestions?

[#2]

Individual Model Text letters stacked vertically?

[#3 · Accepted solution]

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ccollins wrote:

"Individual Model Text letters stacked vertically?"

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I would agree. Attached is an example family that can take a 3-digit number as a parameter value and then split it up amongst three separate Model Text elements. Revit 2013.

[#4]

Sweet! Thanks so much, I had no idea you could have a formula like that... this is exactly what I was looking for! I don't think I would have been able to figure this out on my own!

[#5]

oh, if we just had a little bit of the same functions that were available in the old-an-good Autolisp, we didn't need to do those long formulas in Revit. If we just had something such as "stoi" (to convert string to integer), or "strcat" (for concatenating strings)... OK, I will keep dreaming...

[#6]

The limitations of the formulaic functions is horrible thing, indeed, and has been one of my top 5 problems with Revit.

Take a peek at the attachment in this thread to see a monster I had created as a result...

[#7]

Holy Cow! That is a monster formula. As I said, if we just had 1/10th of the functions that we used to have in that old programming language, formulas in Revit would be so much easier.