topic Re: Displaced label text in section head family in Revit Architecture Forum

Displaced label text in section head family

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 11:59:58 GMT

Hi! I've made a custom section head family for a project, but I have an issue with text placement.

As you can see, my labels don't rotate with my sections! The south-facing section is showing the box I made for the text, but the text itself is hovering over the other north-facing section... This is my first time trying this, so there might be some tips and tricks I don't know about? How can I solve this problem?

Thank you so much in advance!

Re: Displaced label text in section head family

barthbradley — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:24:56 GMT

Let's see it. Post the Family.

Re: Displaced label text in section head family

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:46:29 GMT

Thanks for replying so quickly! I've attached it 🙂

I consider myself an experienced Revit-user, but families and the configuration of them, especially annotations is still new, haha.

Re: Displaced label text in section head family

barthbradley — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 17:10:21 GMT

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Revit-How-to-create-a-section-head-with-rotated-text.html

Did you start this family from a Section Head Template? It's missing the intelligent "Rotate with Section" Line.

Re: Displaced label text in section head family

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 17:12:07 GMT

No, I modified an existing one, so it's strange it wasn't already there... In what drop-down can I find this setting? And is this the only thing I have to fix, in that case? 🙂

Thank you so much for your help so far!

Re: Displaced label text in section head family

barthbradley — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 17:18:52 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
And is this the only thing I have to fix, in that case? 🙂

No. It would still need to be reconfigured.

Are you on 2021 yet?

Re: Displaced label text in section head family

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:36:46 GMT

No, I'm still using 2019, and a student-version at that, as I don't work professionally with Revit at this moment. Does the student-version pose any problems?

Re: Displaced label text in section head family

barthbradley — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:41:23 GMT

No difference. Just better pricing. 😉

...oh, there are some new bells and whistles is 20 and 21. Nothing to write home about.

Re: Displaced label text in section head family

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:45:40 GMT

So, I searched, and apparantly the 2019 version is the problem, haha. Guess that's why you asked? 😄 So, I'll just have to stick to the existing ugly bubble-head, haha.

Re: Displaced label text in section head family

Anonymous — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:04:30 GMT

Hi, I had this problem this week and the Autodesk support told me it is a Revit bug that hasn't been fixed with Revit 2021. We should post the idea on the Revit Ideas forum!
I think at present there's no solution.

Thanks