Model Text Not Constraining Horizontally

[ikorn0]

I am making a Revit 2020 family with multiline model text constrained within a box. Aligning and locking to ref planes kept giving "constraints not satisfied" error when changing text size, text spacing, and/or box size.  So I tried ref lines instead.  I set the model text work plane to the horizontal ref lines, which seems to loosely constrain it vertically.  I aligned and locked the text to the vertical ref line, which appears to work when testing in family editor but not when I bring it into a project.  The text falls off the box either left or right.  I have searched the Internet, tried many different solutions, and am at my wit's end.  Family attached and screenshots of it in a project and in family editor.

[RDAOU · Accepted solution]

@ikorn0 

A model Text in a nested family should/would be easier to constrain and control ... Do the following:

1. Delete the reference lines and stick to reference planes
2. Cut to clipboard the Department text and paste it in a new generic model >>> (note: this will carry over all the parameters with it to the new generic model)
3. Align where you want it to be
4. from the ribbon and while text is selected >>> edit workplane and set to reference level 
5. In the properties panel check the box Work Plane - Based
6. load it back into the main family >>> and place it on the top face of the Sign
7. and lock to reference planes >>>
8. From the project Browser (rename the nested family to Dep Text Family)
9.  Repeat the above steps 2 to 7 for the Area Text (Start a new Generic Model not to clutter parameters) >>>
10. associate the parameters to those in the main family 
11. Save and load to project...

[ikorn0]

@RDAOU thank you so much!  This seems to work a lot better!

I noticed just one little thing that's still odd.  I have the nested area text locked to the horizontal ref plane.  When I change its font size using my parameter, it gets off center vertically.  The nested dept text does too but not as noticeably.  I don't think it will be a major problem, but it's weird.