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Changing text color multiple times in a family

anne3SSZE — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 18:12:32 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to change test color like this within the same text family so you can have multiple colors at once? I know how to change to color for the of the entire family but it isn't the best for note taking. Is there a plug in that exists that allows you to do this? Revit has a very basic text editor and I don't know why you can't just highlight some text and change its color like you can with most things, like this text box.

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

mhiserZFHXS — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 18:18:46 GMT

Not that I'm aware of, but Revit's not really meant for stuff like this. If you had a bunch of random colors all over the place, then you'd have to go and manually change all of them if that time came. The whole idea of types is that you make bulk changes at once. So you create a type that is used for one type of note, and use that where needed. Then if you ever need to change that, you only change it once and it updates everywhere.

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

ToanDN — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 18:42:04 GMT

Yes. Create different text types and assign them with different colors.

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

barthbradley — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:06:42 GMT

You mean like this?

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

anne3SSZE — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:12:20 GMT

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

anne3SSZE — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:12:39 GMT

Yes! how do you do that?

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

barthbradley — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:15:45 GMT

@anne3SSZE wrote:
Yes! how do you do that?

How much you got? I can't just give it away for free.

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

anne3SSZE — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:17:23 GMT

or like you could? 😕

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

barthbradley — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:22:08 GMT

I'm just messing with you. That's an image imported into Revit. You can't do it natively without a bunch of work overlapping different Text Types. Been there; done that. I think I would prefer root canal surgery over doing it again.

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

mhiserZFHXS — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:24:38 GMT

Why would you go and get the poor person's hopes up like that...

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

barthbradley — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:26:09 GMT

@mhiserZFHXS wrote:
Why would you go and get the poor person's hopes up like that...

Actually, it could be a bone fide solution. Try it yourself.

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

ToanDN — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:02:41 GMT

Maybe use color filled regions to highlight instead of changing text colors.

Or create word document, export to PDF and place the PDF in Revit.

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

anne3SSZE — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:34:44 GMT

thank you for the response those are some good suggestions but it won't exactly work for what I am trying to do. I have sheet notes that we leave comments on as reminders for things that might need to change in the text based on the project. Currently I have been using separate text boxes that are a different color but the issue is when text from the main body is changed the comments that are pointing to specific text will not move with the updated text. Adding filled regions to highlight will still leave me with the same issue of the region not moving with the text. thank you for the help though

Re: Changing text color multiple times in a family

L.Maas — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:19:08 GMT

If it is in text box instead of colours make use of ALL CAPS, bold , underline, italic and things between [brackets] or a combination. If you want to bring more focus to the textbox you could use textstyle with particular fontcolour (or border around textbox) indicating that are comments in that box, then the text in bold/italic/... is the comment itself

After the comment is implemented you can replace the textstyle to your default.