I have been trying to create a new generic annotation tag using the generic annotation family in Revit. The ultimate goal is to create a new wall tag but I have not been able to get the visibility parameter to work - at all.
I ended up following this tutorial exactly as the presenter instructs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihEAFLidrtY
Which is consistent with my past Revit experience in making families. However, when I try to assign a parameter to linework, label or text under Properties > Graphics > Visible > "Associate Family Parameter" - nothing happens. No windows open; I cannot create a new parameter to control the visibility of labels, text or linework or anything.
I have tried this in Revit 2019, 2020 and 2021 and they all exhibit the same behavior. I know I have done this in the past with no problem. I have also tried setting the visibility parameter in various types of families with modeled elements with the same result - it does nothing.
What am I doing wrong and how can I fix this so that I can set the visibility parameter for things??
Thank you for any feedback!
Maybe the dialog is off screen or on another monitor?
Try to set the Windows Display Scaling to 100%.
Ok, I turned preview visibility on. I'm not sure how that is supposed to help my issue here:
Also, I can click the button but it just does nothing. Since the program doesn't stop working, I know there isn't a hidden window anywhere as you would have to close that first before continuing.
Are you able to open the visibility parameters window? I am starting to think maybe my tech support team did something strange.
@justinwWZLE8 wrote:Ok, I turned preview visibility on. I'm not sure how that is supposed to help my issue here:
Ha! I read "nothing happens" and "Visibility" and saw that you were in a Family. Nothing does "happen" when Preview Visibility is OFF.
@justinwWZLE8 wrote:
You cannot create a visibility parameter when preview visibility is off? Since when?
I never said that. I merely responded to your query "I'm not sure how that [Preview Visibility] is supposed to help my issue here". Based on the statement, it obviously doesn't. My bad.
But, what I was getting at, is if you had an element's visibility controlled parametrically and you wanted to test it to see if the parameter worked, then you would need to first turn on Preview Visibility.
Gotcha. Well, I appreciate the help!
Edit - a little bit of additional testing seems to indicate that in all of my Revit products, the "Associate Family Parameter" does not function for any properties, in any families, anywhere. I'm stumped.
@justinwWZLE8 wrote:
Already done - scaling has always been at 100%. Checked my other monitor, didn't see any windows.
Going to give the system another reboot and then ask my tech support guys too.
Time to do a clean reinstallation.
@justinwWZLE8 wrote:
the "Associate Family Parameter" does not function for any properties, in any families, anywhere.
I find that hard to believe. Are you using - or have you used - multiple monitors? The dialog box could be opening up on the other monitor.
Thanks guys, I had my IT guy uninstall and remove all traces of Revit from the system. He reinstalled Revit and the same behavior is happening - no dialog window when you click the associate button. Same for every little toggle on every properties window for every family in the program.
So at this time I cannot edit or revise any families. Very useful software. How do we get in touch with autodesk support?
Ok, I did resolve this issue. I had to format and reinstall windows to fix it.
However, the issue was not limited to the visibility parameters. In general, throughout Revit when editing families the button to open the parameter associations was broken (when editing any parameter, any family).
We worked extensively with our tech support team and they spent roughly 10 hours on this one, in the end it turned out that my computer was the only one in the office that exhibited this problem. They purged the registry, ran various cleaning utilities, created new windows profiles, uninstalled and reinstalled revit 5 or 6 times etc.
In the end only a fresh install of windows fixed it.
Two years later... Just had the same problem with my custom diffuser tag family where I was trying to make a graphics parameter that I called "size". Figured out that it wouldn't work properly because "size" is a global parameter for the duct size or size of the grille, etc.... I renamed the graphics parameter to "Size Text" and it worked.
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