topic Re: Callout Head in Revit Architecture Forum

Callout Head

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:45:54 GMT

Is anyone familiar with changing the Callout Head. I'm trying to edit so that the callout head doesn't automatically populate the sheet but it doesn't seem to let me add a shared parameter label.

Re: Callout Head

ToanDN — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:01:18 GMT

What do you mean by "callout head doesn't automatically populate the sheet"? Do you mean the Sheet number inside the callout? And no, you cannot add a shared parameter to a Callout family. What exactly do you want your callout heads to show?

Re: Callout Head

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:11:13 GMT

what i mean is that i do not want the callout head to populate the sheet automatically. I want to be able to edit the callout based on the user preference. please see attached pictures.

Re: Callout Head

RDAOU — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:45:40 GMT

@Anonymous

Edit the family of the callout head (save it as a new family) then use/make a head but instead of the parameter "sheet number" which is in the default label use a "text parameter" thats what would be then called a dummy tag

to check which callout head is being used, select the callout > on the properties palette go to Edit Type > and click your way through to the type of head used...once you figure out which is being used, open family editor to edit/create new and once done load in back to the project and set it in place of the default one.

if you search this board you will find lots of threads on dummy tags if you want to start one up from scratch

cheers

Re: Callout Head

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:23:40 GMT

Thank you for your response. The only options i see are in the attached jpeg. I am editing a family from the project browser named Callout Head. When I right click--> edit, this is what is shown as my options.

Re: Callout Head

ToanDN — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:11:36 GMT

What other information do you need to show?

Re: Callout Head

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:41:11 GMT

@ToanDN if you could please stop replying to any of my post. i find you to be very rude and not helpful. Thanks

Re: Callout Head

RDAOU — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:12:08 GMT

@Anonymous chill mate, he is just trying to help you

See attached file... is this what you want?

The default callout head doesn't have text...you need to change category and add text parameter. As I've said above it is a dummy tag (Something which I neither like nor encourage)

Hope this helps..

Cheers

Re: Callout Head

ToanDN — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:13:00 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

@ToanDN if you could please stop replying to any of my post. i find you to be very rude and not helpful. Thanks

So asking you to clarify your need is rude and unhelpful? Welcome to the real world I guess.

Re: Callout Head

RDAOU — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 04:29:57 GMT

@Anonymous

Out of curtesy...and curiosity... Was that what you were looking for?

Re: Callout Head

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 05:50:40 GMT

You lose all parametric capability of the callout head, but if you want to, just simply, edit the family, re-save, and remove the labels, then type in the text in your project.

Please see my screencast and mark this as a solution!!!!!!!

Re: Callout Head

RDAOU — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:22:06 GMT

That's even dummier than the generic one because one cannot even schedule this lol

Re: Callout Head

ennujozlagam — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:31:23 GMT

hello, your approach doesn't consider as part of BIM. thanks

Re: Callout Head

RDAOU — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:02:40 GMT

As long as one can keep track of it, it is BIM alright...BIM was there before parametrical modeling.

Sent from my iPhone

Re: Callout Head

ToanDN — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:47:57 GMT

@RDAOU wrote:
As long as one can keep track of it, it is BIM alright...BIM was there before parametrical modeling.

This is true. I had some AutoCAD projects with dynamic blocks with fields and attributes that contain far more building information than some Revit projects in our office.

Re: Callout Head

Discussion_Admin — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:05:27 GMT

Ok everyone I did a little house keeping here to get things back on track so lets all play nice nice ok?

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