Has anyone figured this out? I have been search forever and can't find anyone that has actually been able to do this.
I'm strugling with the same thing. The only 'solution' to rotate the label seems to be a Section type for different directions... See http://therevitkid.blogspot.com/2010/01/tutorial-section-annotation-tweaks.html for explanation.
Simon
Dear all
I'm going to add yet another pending quesiton about always horizontal text in the section line.
I found a tutorial by "Revit Kid" however it also isn't perfect solution because the section head is looking as intended in the plan view
but again in the section view it falls apart... very, very, very annoying.
http://www.screencast.com/t/ZmFiMTIzN2
The Rotate with object appears to be broken in 2014.
You could use an elevation tag. Not ideal but at least the section head would face the right direction.
Looking around online, I found a fair number of threads regarding this topic, such as:
http://revitoped.blogspot.com/2013/02/rotate-with-component.html
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Revit-Structure/Hex-Section-Heads/m-p/3058330/highlight/true#M6065
The Revit OpEd link indicates that only certain categories will work with this parameter, hinting that this particular one (while not mentioned in the link) may not.
The next link has a way you can work around this limitation, by setting up text at different orientations within the family.
Any resolve to this issue? It seems like an easy fix or thing to do, but I can't seem to find a way to have the "Detail Number" follow the direction of the section once it's been flipped.
Are you able to use the video from the forum thread that I linked earlier, to setup seprate family types to control placement of the text?
The links you posted still do not solve the problem... As "Joanah-Banana" stated above, creating different types with visibilty parameters for different angles/directions works only for plan view. But when you go into your sections/elevations the section tag is then again rotated wrong. This has been a problem for years, I am surprised Autodesk has not come up with a fix for this system family.
Yes, another one of those little things that is rather annoying.
There is a thread on the ideas forum which maybe folk could vote on to see if we can get ADesk to at least take a look...
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/rotatable-section-heads/idi-p/6329412
unreal how i managed to work around this problem. i had a line that was from an old section tag but the 'Rotate With Section' was ticked but grayed out so i had to cut and past this line into new section. the Line worked but was still grayed out. i've not been able to draw a new line and find a 'Rotate With Section' option anywhere.
To confirm this is still an issue with Revit 2017. The 'Rotate with Component' parameter does not work with any elements not included in the original 'Section Head' family template. It also does not work with the label which makes it impossible to create truly custom section families without a drastic workaround. Definitely seems like a bug. The attached image is the intended result using a workaround of a custom section head with a rotated view reference. This is not ideal as the view reference needs to be checked manually.
Autodesk-
If you could expose the links to the ID and number we could link in a generic annotation and tie those to the data points in the section head.
Any news on Revit 2018?
@lukekvasnicka wrote:To confirm this is still an issue with Revit 2017. The 'Rotate with Component' parameter does not work with any elements not included in the original 'Section Head' family template. It also does not work with the label which makes it impossible to create truly custom section families without a drastic workaround. Definitely seems like a bug. The attached image is the intended result using a workaround of a custom section head with a rotated view reference. This is not ideal as the view reference needs to be checked manually.