Rotate Line With Text in Section Head Family

[ebsoares]

Hi, all.

While editing our section head family I noticed that one line element in there (the one pointed to in the image below) has a special parameter called "Rotate With Text", which is great as it keeps that line horizontal along with the text elements (everything else rotates with the section, as expected). If I make copies of that line, all copies will also have that special parameter.

The issue, however, is that I don't know how to create a new line (or any other type of drafting element) which will have that "Rotate With Text" parameter - it looks like Autodesk created that family, added that parameter specifically to that line alone, and that's it. But it feels like I'm missing something and should be able to create content with that parameter...

Any help would be appreciated.

Edgar

[RDAOU]

@ebsoares 

There is only one way to recreate the same line with Rotate with text option but if it will behave the same, is not guaranteed 

• You can copy it within the same family (CO)
• Or you can also cut/copy (Ctrl+X or Ctrl+C) to clipboard then paste it into any other annotation family (Generic Annotation/Elevation Head/Some Tag...etc)

[ebsoares]

Thanks for replying, @RDAOU - however, as I mentioned on the OP above, I can copy this around and it works fine, like you showed. My questions was on whether is was possible to create a new element with that parameter (not copy it from somewhere else). For example, can I create an arc or spline that will keep the same orientation as the text?

[RDAOU]

That’s the only way; nonetheless, the copied line within a family and/or the pasted line beyond the realm of around and into a new document  would be technically a new element, or not?

[ebsoares]

Yes, in a sense that as far as straight lines are concerned, we can use it to string together any shape we want, but this is just a workaround.

And that is not helpful when we want to have other elements behave in that same way - we can't draw a spline or an arc or create a filled region or whatever and have it maintain its original orientation regardless of how the section cut gets rotated.

So then it seems that, other than a copy/paste workaround exclusive for straight line segments, there's no way to create new content in the section header family that does not rotate when the family is used and rotated in a project...

I guess this should go to the ideas forum then...

Thanks a bunch for helping me confirm it, @RDAOU 👍

[RDAOU]

I do not even think copy was even intended to copy that line. It is more of an exploit and would be fixed if highlighted.

Similar to the trick to add reference planes in generic annotations and hiding reference planes permanently in families (there are lots of these glitches that can be exploited in Revit)