topic Re: Spot elevation leader in Revit Structure Forum

Spot elevation leader

jeroendewind — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 08:01:20 GMT

Hi all,

Is it possible to adjust leaders of the 'spot elevation' so that they're not attached to the object they're referring to, the same as with normal dimension lines? When I add the spot elevation, it's ruining my drawing, see the red arrow, while before adding the spot elevation, it was just like the blue one.

Thanks!

Re: Spot elevation leader

RDAOU — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 15:13:01 GMT

@jeroendewind Hi

There are two ways to do it

Select the spot elevation the edit type >> under graphics make the color white .
second method is to switch Leader off completely (it will be placed right on top of the slab) then select the grip of the text to drag it and place it at the end of the witness line of ur dimension annotation

below is the first option

Re: Spot elevation leader

jeroendewind — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 15:29:19 GMT

Thanks for the reply, but both solutions work for me. The solution with white leaders makes my dimlines dissapear, since I made them before the spot elevation. I also tried to make my own symbol, with a line not on point 0,0 and using a spot elevation with no leader (since the line should have the function of leader) but that was horrible.

Re: Spot elevation leader

jeroendewind — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:11:21 GMT

I came across this topic again when searching again for this problem. The issue is still not fixed.

The solutions above don't work for me, the "both solutions work for me" was a typo.

I really want the leader and shoulder to be turned on because I like the way how those spot elevations are placed. Turning them off would place the elevation right on top of the model so I would have to drag them manually (withouth horizontal fixation) into position, and then also losing it's reference. Also, I like to place spot elevations sometimes without a dimension, so when I do that it's just floating beside the object.

Making them white would make my dimension lines dissapear (it's placed over the dimline) and has the same problem when I don't use dimlines; it's just floating text.

The normal spot elevation is near perfect, it only needs a feature to be kept seperate form the object, just with normal dimension lines.

It's been several Revit updates later, hope they worked something out. Thanks in advance!

Jeroendewind

Re: Spot elevation leader

Dewi.franckx — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:41:14 GMT

Hi Jeroen,

I ran into the same problem. Did you find a workaround?

Re: Spot elevation leader

jeroendewind — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:45:07 GMT

Nope, still the same problem. Created a new topic a while ago (link in my profile?) but also no replies there.

Edit: It wasn't a new topic, just a new reply here.

Re: Spot elevation leader

SamehM8TCMC — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:17:40 GMT

HI,

I use the override option and it works.

but not the best solution*