Door signage - flipping

[justin]

First post.

Revit 2015

I've got a non-OOTB door family, but I believe I would have the same problem with a standard door.

I have created a face-based generic model to represent an ADA sign. It has some text (men / women / exit / room #) some braile, and possibly some figure (int'l sym. for accessibility). These signs go on the strike side of the door at 60" AFF. So I put them there in the family with some options to swap different sign types.

It all works peachy in the family editor (and when loaded in a project) until I flip the door. The door flips correctly, and the sign flips to the side I want it on, but the sign text/graphics is mirrored. So the flip is really sort of "mirroring" the door family in the wall, which is good for the door, but not for this sign. What I really need to happen is for the sign to change locations.

Yes, this could all be handled with visibility parameters, but...I could also just draw the signs in manually in the elevations, but... Surely there is a better way?

Justin

[Alaaeldin_Alsahli]

Hi Justin

Just to make sure i understood about the sign family

They are nested in the door family

They are Generic

Are they face hosted, are they on the door or on the wall, since you mention on the side of the door so justed wanted to be sure.

is it possible to send an example of that generic family

[Alaaeldin_Alsahli]

is it a model txt or annotation txt for 2d presentation only

[justin]

The signs are generic, face based family.

they include both model text and a generic anotation label, both of which get mirrored when the door is flipped ("MEN" becomes "N3M" - I can't flip the "N" but I think you get the idea). Also includes an extruded shape for a man / woman and the international symbol for accessibility, a person in a wheelchair; the man/woman are symetric so no change with flip, but the wheelchair is not.

I've tried to included the wall signage family for reference, but I keep getting the error message "the contents of the attachement doesn't match its file type"!!!

What I would like is for the family to change sides when I flip the door so that it is always on the latch/strike side of the door, but not mirror.

[Alaaeldin_Alsahli · Accepted solution]

The flip feature is design to mirror everything and there no way to keep the text readable when is been flipped.

As you mentioned earlier you could use Visibility instance or type

OR

You could use these generic family separately

other wise I don't know how it could be done  

You could create an enhancement feature for this part by logging an wishlist

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794