View Family and masking...

[gsucci]

I am trying to mask portion of a label, inside a view title family.
I see the masking region tool, and the filled region tools, but neither can mask anything once I use the family in a project.

I even tried drawing a fat, white line, and even importing a white JPG image...Nothing to do.

Was this behaviour coded into revit, or it is just a bug?

Thank you,

regards

Gio

[Anonymous]

the masking region tool was created specifically for your purpose...putting
it into an annotation and then masking stuff at the project level. Can you
post what you are trying to do?

wrote in message news:5628123@discussion.autodesk.com...
I am trying to mask portion of a label, inside a view title family.
I see the masking region tool, and the filled region tools, but neither can
mask anything once I use the family in a project.

I even tried drawing a fat, white line, and even importing a white JPG
image...Nothing to do.

Was this behaviour coded into revit, or it is just a bug?

Thank you,

regards

Gio

[gsucci]

No, I don't think I explained myself.

Open a view title family and draw a masking region over a label. The mask will not mask.

Try with a white filled region, it tricks you, showing that it is actually masking the label, but then you load into an actual prject, and nothing, no masking..

I am not trying to mask in a project, but inside a view title family.

Thank you

[Anonymous]

may I ask why you are trying to mask a label inside of a view title family?
Wouldn't be easier to just delete the label you don't want to see?

wrote in message news:5628367@discussion.autodesk.com...
No, I don't think I explained myself.

Open a view title family and draw a masking region over a label. The mask
will not mask.

Try with a white filled region, it tricks you, showing that it is actually
masking the label, but then you load into an actual prject, and nothing, no
masking..

I am not trying to mask in a project, but inside a view title family.

Thank you

[gsucci]

Scott,
I need to mask just a portion of the label.
It is the detail number of an interior elevation, something like "1-A".

We (as most architects used to do before using Revit) would like the interior elevation tags to show detail# / sheet# in the center of the bubble, and "A,B,C,D" respectively for the 4 elevations.

This is not possible, so we need to attach the detail number on the elevation numer, such as "1-A, 1-B, etc.".

Now, the title view for these elevations could be modified to look the way we like, that is, a detail number in the bubble, title and scale, the line, AND a letter identifing the single elevations, A,B, etc.

This could be possible if there was any way to "split" the view name into detail number and elevation number. If there was a scripting system I could write into the text field of a label something like STR(, 1, 1) to extract the first character of the name string...

I thought I could do that graphically, creating two labels showing the name of the view, and masking either the detail number or the letter number...

Now, beside the obvious feature request about custom elevation view tags and view title (an issue that has been there for ever), my questions are:

1. why is the masking region *not* masking labels within families?
2. why the solid filled region *appears* to mask a label within an annotation family, but doesn't once you place the family in a project?
3. why there are no "draw order" tools while editing annotation families?

Thank you