room tag leader arrow skewed in section view

[mpukas]

Yep, just another day where Revit is doing absolutely weird, inexplicable s&*t again, burning up more time  trouble-shooting and finding work arounds...

In Section Views, all of the existing views I've been using since starting the project, when I tag a room and then select "leader" so I can drag the tag outside of the building, the arrow, which is set to a filled dot, appears to viewed at an angle. It doesn't appear as a perfectly round circle, it appears as an oval. In plan views, the arrow dot looks like it should - a circle. Different rooms using the same tag in the same view have the arrow skewed to different degrees. 

My section views are parallel/perpendicular to the building walls. Everything is orthogonal. 

This is happening only in existing views that I have be using since starting the project. If I create a new section, either orthogonal or at a random skewed angle, and tag a room w/ the same tag family and arrow, the arrow shows as a circle. Am I doing something wrong again that I'm not aware of? 

[barthbradley]

Weird.  Post the file.  

[mpukas]

Will do - pls tell me again how to attach a file larger than the allowable size? DropBox link? 

[barthbradley]

can you not ZIP it and attach it?  

[mpukas]

it's too big when compressed, and I've found .rvt files don't compress much. From 160mb to 155mb. I made a copy, purged, removed links and images. 

[barthbradley]

Well, I'm seeing what you're seeing. Some weird sh*t for sure.  I don't have a clue what's going on. You stumped me. 

@ToanDN?  You out there?   

[ToanDN]

Look okay here.  Which views have the problem?

[barthbradley]

EAST-WEST SECTION 2

[ToanDN]

When I placed a new tag it looks okay.

[barthbradley]

Yeah, I know that. So, what are you suggesting? That the OP go through every view and redo them.  C'mon man! 

[barthbradley]

@mpukas: I'd open up a Support Case and I'd submit this SH*T! to Autodesk. 

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

You can add an elbow to the leader to fix the arrow shape.

[mpukas]

Adjusting the elbow works for me now, and I can put the leader back to straight and the arrow stays true. Thx again TaonDN. 

Still, another weird Thing That Should Not Be in Revit. It's a never ending slurry of this kind of crap for me... maybe not always on a daily basis, but at least a few times a week. 

[barthbradley]

C'mon! That's not a solution! To go to every single view and modify annotative elements that were just fine the day before!  WTF! I'd raise more of a stink about this personally.  I'd be on the horn to Autodesk in a heartbeat.   

[mpukas]

To be clear, the tags themselves were not changing. It's placing a new room tag w/ a leader in an existing section view that I have the problem, and still do. If I bend the elbow the arrow appears correctly, and then I can straighten the leader. When I create a new section view and place a new room tag w/ leader, the leader arrow appear just fine the first time.  

I agree that ToanDN's solution is not an acceptable solution, it's a work-around to a problem THAT SHOULD NOT BE. 

Also to add, I started this project w/ a brand new template file that I had just created. I figured it was time to start from scratch, so I started a new template file f/ OOTB and imported/copied my standards into it. I was having random weird problems in older projects, and I still have random weird problems in new projects started with the new template. 

[ToanDN]

What are your screen resolution and display scaling?

[mpukas]

1600x1200 100% 

Never have seen this problem before, and using the same monitor since I started Revit nearly 7 years ago - Dell Ultrasharp U3014 30"