topic Re: Its not revision, how to cloud in Revit Architecture Forum

Its not revision, how to cloud

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 05:09:14 GMT

I want to cloud to annotate and have some notes but its not part of revision.

can someone pls give any idea. how that can be achieved

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

ToanDN — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 06:03:57 GMT

There are several options:

- You can still use the Revision cloud tool to craw the graphic if you like. If your official Revisions are numeric then you can add a new Revision with its numbering set to 'none' or 'alphabet' in order to filter it out from the Revision schedule.

- Create a repeating detail component to draw the cloud-like graphic.

- Create a line based detail family arraying an arc module to draw the cloud-like graphic

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

Anonymous — Thu, 23 May 2019 12:16:36 GMT

Thanks ToanDN,

I have to ask how you can filter out a Revision of a Revision Schedule though. It seems not possible for me.

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

ToanDN — Thu, 23 May 2019 14:31:28 GMT

You cannot. What i meant was set the sorting grouping to unimtemized, sort by revision number, then all the non numbered revisions will collapse into one blank row.

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

biztrobill — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 19:35:36 GMT

I just came across a post that answers this question. http://revitscratchpad.blogspot.com/2011/05/fake-revision-clouds-in-revit.html

First use the revision cloud tool to create the shape you want. But before closing the revision cloud tool, select and copy (Ctrl-C) the cloud geometry. Then click the X to close without saving. Now you can Paste-Aligned and the cloud is created as detail lines. Clever, no?

I tried to make a filled region the same way but it didn't work for me. Pasting the cloud geometry only shows as a rectangle. Maybe someone has a suggestion?

Hope this helps,

Bill

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 11:42:57 GMT

Simple, yet genius.
Thanks a lot!

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

famosGQMT9 — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 21:52:22 GMT

Genius indeed. Love these kind of solutions.

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

paryseVSJ9U — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 19:51:20 GMT

amazing, copying pasting the rev. cloud worked! Now, only if i could change those new cloud detail lines to red....:/

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

ToanDN — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 19:57:39 GMT

@paryseVSJ9U wrote:

amazing, copying pasting the rev. cloud worked! Now, only if i could change those new cloud detail lines to red....:/

Why can't you? Create a new line type, change its color to red, and assign it to the pasted cloud lines.

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

davidjimm — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 12:00:05 GMT

Not possible. For whatever reason those pasted lines are not changeable. Wish they were.

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

CiaranB9TPCE — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 05:27:35 GMT

To edit the color go into Line Styles and look for <Thin Lines> can edit Line Weight, Color and Pattern. Just check you are not using this line style in any part of Revit like lines used in schedules.

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

wisedrawing — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 05:47:00 GMT

You can change it with graphics override in that sheet or view - as its an annotation object and not a model object changing it in the view is easy and useful - highlight it and right click to override graphics and select it how you want it - totally fixed

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

RobDraw — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 10:45:36 GMT

@wisedrawingwrote:
totally fixed

That's fine for one but how about for all the future ones?

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

wisedrawing — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 22:48:05 GMT

My fixes will often be hacks 🙂 - as this was a convoluted work around from the start anyway!

Re: Its not revision, how to cloud

RobDraw — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 23:18:42 GMT

@wisedrawing wrote:
My fixes will often be hacks

I think your description is a bit generous.

@wisedrawing wrote:
as this was a convoluted work around from the start anyway!

In the absence of an annotation cloud, a few easy extra steps isn't very convoluted.