Gridline annotation - intersection markers

[Chris-Little-MN]

Hi!

Subtrade here.  2015 is the year that we switch our software to REVIT, and I need some help.

In autoCAD we included column markers at each grid intersection (over the project it saves tons of labour hours, easy to read, quick to make RFIs) like the shot below.  What we used below was a simple block with Alpha and Numeric vaiables. I am trying to recreate this within REVIT and running into some issues:

1 - The REVIT gridline family is non cartesian.  Meaning that there is no NS vs WE; Alpha vs Numeric variables, just the "name" parameter. I sorta get why the programmers would have done that, but it means that I can't create a family and then link it to the gridlines so that things are nicely parametric and quick (because one cant dictate which gridline should be listed first)

2 - Based on point 1 I thought that it would be clever to make a new Gridline Family and add some a new Identity Data parameter (instance?) such as "Alpha name" = A,B,C, etc and "Numeric Name" = 1,2,3 etc.  I couldn't figure out how to do this, and it seemed like gridlines were a highlevel family that can't be exported...

3 - Then I started looking at symbols tags etc and got confused.  Since what I am trying to do is assiociated with the gridlines, I couldnt find a tag that would carry over to multiple views similar to the way that gridlines do.  furthermore, most tags/symbols etc want to link to a family, something that I could do with most everything else BUT gridlines.

Ideally it would be great to have a new annotation class that could link to gridlines, but I think that that would have to be provided on an update by Autodesk.  

Does anyone has wisdom/ideas for this? Many thanks in advance

Chris

[L.Maas]

I ran into the similar problems, as you did, in an earlier project. I employed a little trick to make it myself as easy as possible which worked for me.

Basically, make use of columns. As you might be aware you can place column at grids. So what I did was created a structual column with a nested annotation family. This annotation had a label connected to an instance parameter. In the project place the "annotation" column at the grids and changed the annotation value to the text needed. Added bonus is that the label move with the grids.

Attached I updated that family for your case so that it has a separate Number and Text Label. In your project you can easily select A whole row of the family and give it a Letter and select a whole column and give it a number.

Not completely automated mut might speed up the process.

[P93mahapatra]

Hi Thanks for this - I dowload and tried but it's shwoing me the warning. can you tell me in simple way how ot use it 🙂

Thanks.