Revit Drafting Views - Is it possible to show tags sample texts in drafting views?

[david.marcosWBMD8]

Hi all,

I am updating the company's template, and have several drafting views with text types, linestyles,etc.. I would also want to have another drafting view for tag types, but when I insert them into the view the text shows "?" - so it doesn't recognize the tag family sample text for the parameters.

I know that you can show tags with sample text values in Legend views, but is not ideal to split the standards in 2 locations, in particular considering that the Legend folder doesn't provide sorting options.

I understand that there are reasons for this behavior on Drafting Views (normally the actual tag value would be displayed in the view) but I was wondering if there would be any workaround for me to get all our standards in drafting views.

Many thanks in advance,

DM

[syman2000 · Accepted solution]

No possible since drafting view require you to reference to an object. Only work around is to add generic annotation into the tag

Load this into the project. Both drafting & legend will shared the same setting.

When you add the tag for legend and drafting view, it will appear the same.

[david.marcosWBMD8]

Thanks for your reply Syman. I knew this one would be tricky!

Thanks also for adding a possible solution - I thought about that, but being this a template, I would rather keep the families clean even if I have to split standards through Draft views and legends.

DM

[ToanDN]

Why don't you convert those drafting views to legend views?