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North Arrow In sheet family

dsalvagni — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:52:55 GMT

My company has our north arrow in the sheet family I want to be able to rotate the indicator arrow after i have loaded the sheet into the project. I have made a separate north arrow family with shared parameters and loaded it into my sheet family but once I load the sheet family into the project the option to rotate the north arrow is not there. is what I want to do even possible?

Re: North Arrow In sheet family

barthbradley — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:08:44 GMT

Did you Associate the North Arrow Family's rotation Parameter to an Instance Parameter in the Titleblock Family. If so, did you select the Titleblock Family on the Project Sheet to reveal its Properties and access its rotation Parameter?

Re: North Arrow In sheet family

dsalvagni — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:09:31 GMT

It works within the sheet family but does not work when the sheet is in the project

Re: North Arrow In sheet family

barthbradley — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:19:26 GMT

There is no such thing as a Sheet Family/Category, so I don't know what you mean. But, it looks to me like your North Arrow is on a Titleblock that is on a Project Sheet.

Re: North Arrow In sheet family

dsalvagni — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:17:24 GMT

I am sorry I am talking about a titleblock family my North arrow is in the titleblock family and I want to be able to rotate the north arrow once the titleblock family is in the project

Re: North Arrow In sheet family

barthbradley — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:22:22 GMT

@dsalvagni wrote:
I am sorry I am talking about a titleblock family my North arrow is in the titleblock family and I want to be able to rotate the north arrow once the titleblock family is in the project

ASSOCIATE the North Arrow Family's rotation Parameter to an Instance Parameter in the Titleblock Family. Know how to Associate Parameters?

Re: North Arrow In sheet family

barthbradley — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:23:32 GMT

https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-E2E6B19B-E47F-4F35-9F6D-1273A3248A50

Re: North Arrow In sheet family

HVAC-Novice — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:36:46 GMT

Check out my post about North arrows.

If you want to read true north automatically, you need the dynamo script. Unfortunately Revit doesn't seem to have a native support for that.

Re: North Arrow In sheet family

eng_jawaher2024 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:56:49 GMT

Please can you shear to me your sheet as example I want to see the agenda on it how its looks like if possible ?

Re: North Arrow In sheet family

eng_jawaher2024 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:01:03 GMT

please can you send to me sheet as example I want to see what is can be add to title block ?

Re: North Arrow In sheet family

azad.Nanva — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:02:32 GMT

What exactly do you need? A title block with an automatic north direction? Or a north arrow that works with a parameter and needs to be set manually? Or a fixed north direction inside a title block?