Revit LT 2026 Structural Column Tags

[BillAllenSE]

I know I must be doing something wrong.

When I tag a column and the tag is on the right side of the column, I want the text to align left. I edit the tag family so that the text is aligned left.

When I want the tag to be on the left side of the column, I want the text to align right. So, I duplicate the tag, give it a different name and edit the properties so that it aligns right. 

However, when I do this, all of the column tags do either one or the other.

Is it impossible to think that one tag should be able to do both and it should know whether the text needs to align left or right?
What am I missing?
Thank you

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@BillAllenSE wrote:

Is it impossible to think that one tag should be able to do both and it should know whether the text needs to align left or right?

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Nothing. It's impossible, Revit is not that smart.

You can create two types of tag, with the same label, just on different text type, one right aligned, other left. Set visibility parameters and then you manually choose which label you want to see.

[BillAllenSE]

Thank you for confirming what I suspected.

This is one of the main reasons I can't do construction documents in Revit. It takes too much time to get them aligned correctly as compared to using multileader in AutoCAD.

When I last attempted to use Revit in my workflow (2008-2016), I tried to use Revit exclusively. Now, I will use Revit to do the modeling and then AutoCAD for annotation. I know this is not an usual approach as I know several who use Sketchup for modeling and AutoCAD for detailing and one who uses Chief Architect(?) for modeling and AutoCAD for annotation.