Spot Elevation Label Parameter Text Option

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to add a label to our spot elevation so that the tag will read the elevation of the floor and then a user can type into the bottom line what the elevation is indicating, such as 'TOSS' or 'FFE' or 'Sidewalk', etc. See 'Ideal Elevation.PNG'.

I've encountered a startling number of issues:

-The system family containing the spot elevation will not seem to let you put any manually entered text into the lower value without also including some kind of indicator. Given I only want a single number on the top line and the manual text on the bottom, this doesn't seem like it will work.

-So I tried to customize the family. Within the Spot Elevation family, the option to add a label is grayed out, so I nested an generic annotation containing a label and tied a text parameter in the spot elevation to the value of the label. However because the object you tag is actually a system family that includes the spot elevation, there is no way to actually get to the parameter made in the Spot Elevation if it's an instance item.

-Biting the bullet that I will need a new type of System Spot Elevation containing an unique type of Spot Elevation (and getting really frusterated..), I converted my text parameter to a type based and tested it out with the value 'Test'. But when then I realized that Spot Elevation spins depending on the direction of the leader. Also noted in this post (http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture/problem-with-spot-elevation-system-family/td-p/2845... Any solutions to this? See 'Problem Elevation.PNG'.

Is there anyway to get Revit to deal with these beside just floating text around the spot elevation? This seems pretty basic drafting stuff.

Thanks,

Trevor

[MelonieB]

I still do not see a user-friendly solution to this. As we should all know by now, you shouldn't have an actual datum element (level) for each an every thing, such as your "top of window". I think what a lot of people here are asking is for the ability to have an "instance" parameter of sorts that allows you to change the text based on the situation. Instead of using a level element, we should be able to use a spot elevation that can LOOK like a level, but doesn't behave like one, but still reports the elevation. I just threw in a quick screen shot of what I mean. The bottom "Level 1" is an actual level element, and the one with red text that says "T.O. WINDOW" is a spot elevation. The text below that is set up in the spot elevation parameters with a prefix to make it look like a level element. Still hoping for something like this without doing all kinds of gymnastics (or worse, "dumb text") that usually fail anyway.

[jbrr27]

I wasn't able to get the elevation to cover the text completely, but putting a visibility parameter on both the top and bottom text and creating a type for each symbol got the same result.  Unfortunately, that means having to create a separate type of spot elevation for each symbol in the project as well.  Thanks for the idea.  Still wish Autodesk would build this functionality in, but at least it's something.

[nbuck-adw]

Just checking back in and still disappointed with the results on this topic. I don't think any of the solutions are viable and this should not be consider solved until Autodesk solves it on their end. 

My question is, how can we raise the priority level of this topic for the developers?

[MelonieB]

It needs tons of up-votes on the idea board, not a forum. Post the idea there, then share on Twitter, I guess? 🤣