Grid Bubble with reference note (CL, top of, face of, etc)

[krista]

I am trying to figure out if you can make a grid bubble with an additional note that sits over the line. Typically these notes say what the grid line is referenceing such as centreline of wall, face of concrete, etc.. Please help

[SteveKStafford]

Since a grid can be seen in many views and the reason you want this special marking may not be desireable in all of those views (like elevations or sections) ...as such we usually add such a symbol to the views that require it. There is a CL symbol in the stock library (Annotations folder) which you can load into your project. You can place it wherever you need it.

Alternatively you can edit the grid head family your grid type is assigned to and add the same symbol or make your own. Keep in mind the orientation may not always work out well depending on the orientation of the grids and the building plan.

[krista]

Agreed that you may not want it visable everywhere. However, my amateur knowledge of revit sugests that you can make elements visable and not with a checknox in the properties box (like room tags). 

But for simppleicy and just getting the note to appear. I can't figure out how to get a parameter in the grid bubble symbol and then when I did, I can't edit it in the model?? 

[SteveKStafford]

Sorry, grids and levels (and other system families) are much more finicky about how they are configured.

The grid head family is applied to a Grid Family and Type. That means it is nested and the only way you can interact with your customization is if you create the centerline and control it via a Type in the Grid family itself. In the project you assign a different grid head type to a different grid family type. If you are using the stock Imperial template there are three grid types already. If you Edit Type you'll see the annotation assigned to the Symbol parameter. That's how you choose the grid annotation with your CL graphics.

Perhaps after reading this and a little more experimentation you'll begin to see why I suggested placing the symbol separately? 🙂

Fwiw, I just noticed experimenting with this that adding annotation (in 2015) affects the grids ability to see each other, which makes it very hard to line them up, not good.

[SteveKStafford]

Um, the grid alignment I mentioned doesn't seem to be the annotation, it's the Web Update release 7 I just applied or at least it sure looks that way at the moment.

[krista]

This is what I've done so far (very similar to room names), making the note visable or not. I made parapeter association, but it doesn't show up in the grid dialogue box as a option?? Is this not going to work?

[SteveKStafford]

I've attached a version of your family that will work. Take a look to see what I did. I just added two Family Types and toggle on/off your parameters. In the project duplicate a Grid type so I could assign a different grid head version to show the CL (see image).

Oh btw, when I wrote the Update Release 7 caused a problem with my computer I was wrong. It was a Snap setting that was turned off that was affecting my grids, strange but easy to fix.

I still believe that because this is Type based behavior that you'll find it isn't going to work well enough... 🙂