Resize the row of revision schedule in Title Block

[Anonymous]

I want to make a Title Block following my client title block DWG file. In the AutoCad file the revision Schedule box have an Exact height with 10 row. In Revit I found out that I am not able to resize the revision schedule row height. the icon is gray and the size only changes when I increase the size of body text. The fact is that I want the body text to be 2 mm, and with this setting my schedule including the 10 rows does not have the height that I want. Is there any way that I can increase the height of rows without increasing the text height?

[ToanDN]

I don't think it can be done to Revision schedules.

[Jacob.westergaard · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thank you for taking your time to post this on the forum, 

I can see why you would have the need to adjust this, but currently it isn't a feature you have available in Revit. 

To get it implemented I would recommend you vote for it on the IDEA page - I've already found a matching post. 

• Adjustable row heights for schedules?

If you have any questions to it let me know, 

Best Regards,

[jprim123]

I don't understand why such a common sense feature would even need to be voted on. I understand the voting process for concept features to be added, but this seems like something that's been in high demand for a product that's been out for over a decade...

[David_Knight]

Could you add a cell to the schedule and leave it very narrow, the add text in the color white into that cell - make the text tall enough to set the height of the table.  Since its white, it wont print.  Might even make a custom text style for it with a 0.001 width factor if necessary.

might be a work around...?

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

@David_Knight

Pretty sure you can't do any of those to a Revision Schedule.

@Anonymous

See the attached 2019 file for a workaround.  Let me know if you can make any sense out of it.

[AFatRat]

How was this done? I can't figure out what you did to have differing heights of text and rows.

[ToanDN]

I added a bunch of spaces in the Revision description and end them with an Unicode character.

[AFatRat]

Nice. I tried it and it definitely works. If it was just me I'd use it, but there's no way I'm trusting the people around here with that workaround. Makes no sense that we can't change the size of the body text rows without changing the size of the text. Or at least make the revision schedule parameters accessible so we can create our own labels/schedules. Ah well.

[steve.lacroix]

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@AFatRat wrote:

there's no way I'm trusting the people around here with that workaround. 

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My sentiments exactly.  All these workarounds we have to create in order to follow a standard, is a recipe for disaster.  I'm dealing with coworkers who have been using AutoCAD for 20+ years & an equal amount of newbies.  Not one of them have visited the forums, and get confused with any workarounds.  These settings should be available OOTB.

[Anonymous]

Did you use a specific UniCode character? I am trying to find good ways to control the row height in revision schedules.

[c_heintz]

I find it quite problematic honestly the lack of flexibility overall and as someone said, there are people that have no clue on how to use revit that I am supposed to learn how to do so many workarounds. In my case I have not been using revisions in a "smart way" as this has never been a priority in smaller projects for small budgets but as we are doing a longer and larger project I thought it was worth to learn how to label revisions properly.

(Rant warning)

It turns out, it is indeed much easier and better to do it "manually" in the title block rather than using revisions. I can still use the cloud revisions drawings which is handy but when it comes to the revision table, then making sure that every sheet enables the revisions etc just makes it very clunky. If Autodesk want people to convert then they should focus more on simplicity and make it a lot easier for people to transition because stuff like this will force people away from using the software.