Annotation text in two languages

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have a large Revit file that contains 70 different rooms in 140 sheets which should be texted in two different languages. All the text is now in one language. Therefore I need to find the easiest way to group, translate, hide and unhide these text annotations.

The way I figured is to group the selection of annotations in the first language, make a copy of it and call it something else, then hide the first language selection and then translate the other group into the second language. The method works, but I wonder if there is a more efficient way without that many steps when switching back and forth between the two annotation languages?

Is there a way to collect all text groups in a category and switch them all on and off in one step, or do I have to turn them on and off individually?

Thanks!

[Alfredo_Medina]

Welcome to the forum.

One solution to hide all the text of one language in one step, in one view, is this:

Create 2 types of text. Rename your current text as, for example, "Text-A"; duplicate this text type and create, for example, "Text-B".Do your annotations as usual, "Text-A" for one language, and "Text-B" for the other language. 

To hide all the text in one language, select one instance of "Text-A" > Select all instances > in view > Hide elements in view. 

To unhide all the text in one language, click on the light bulb mode to go to the reveal elements mode. Select one instance, > Select all instances > in view > unhide element.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Alfredo, that is more or less the option that I've been using 🙂

The question is, if there is a way to hide all text-boxes in one language in the entire model and to unhide the other text-boxes in an easier way.

My first thought was to make two 'language-groups' in the model, but several groups cannot be named the same and it's not possible to group elements in different views, so I guess this isn't possible?

[Alfredo_Medina]

Hmm... it's difficult because text notes are different from other elements. They don't allow subcategories, are specific to the view, etc...