Elevation mark: Body

[XXalessio.amodioXX]

Hi all,

I want to create a symbol like this. Unfortunatelly when tryiing to modify the elevation mark is not possible to add a shared parametes and/or fields.

Any idea?

[XXalessio.amodioXX]

Hi all,

I want to create a symbol like this. Unfortunatelly when tryiing to modify the elevation mark is not possible to add a shared parametes and/or fields.

Any idea?

[Redrunner92]

Unfortunately you cannot create such an Elevation Mark family for the reason you stated: the family only allows the parameters which are built into it. Even so, you can make an item which looks like that but it will not be fully parametric: the Room Number and the Elevation View numbers will not both be tied to their sources. In other words, you could draw a Room Tag in which the Room Number label reflects the actual Room's number but the Elevation View numbers are parameters you manually enter. This is the way which seems to me to make the most of Revit's automation via tags. Since an Elevation Mark cannot have new parameters added to it, not even for values you would manually enter, that seems like a dead-end to me. Even if you edit the family, change the category, add a label which the Elevation Mark would not allow, then change the category back to Elevation Mark, the new label becomes devoid of its original field after reverting the category back.

I hope that helps.

[Redrunner92]

Unfortunately you cannot create such an Elevation Mark family for the reason you stated: the family only allows the parameters which are built into it. Even so, you can make an item which looks like that but it will not be fully parametric: the Room Number and the Elevation View numbers will not both be tied to their sources. In other words, you could draw a Room Tag in which the Room Number label reflects the actual Room's number but the Elevation View numbers are parameters you manually enter. This is the way which seems to me to make the most of Revit's automation via tags. Since an Elevation Mark cannot have new parameters added to it, not even for values you would manually enter, that seems like a dead-end to me. Even if you edit the family, change the category, add a label which the Elevation Mark would not allow, then change the category back to Elevation Mark, the new label becomes devoid of its original field after reverting the category back.

I hope that helps.