Annotation Leader Spacing

[Anonymous]

Hey, I'm working on setting up a Revit template for my company. I was testing out annotations and making adjustments when this suddenly started happening;

All are the same annotation file, but each has wildly different spacing between the line and annotation. I've tried changing the tag file but nothing changed. I even went back to before I loaded the file and the annotations would still set up like this. Anyone have some advice on how to fix it? Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

Nevermind, I think I figured it out

[kadmonkee · Accepted solution]

the leader start is the centroid point within the family.

you can fool Revit by using invisible lines for justifying the leader start point

[RobDraw]

Questions like to be answered.

Plus, it might help others if you post your solution.

You can even accept it as a solution to boost your count!

[RobDraw]

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@kadmonkee wrote:

the leader start is the centroid point within the family.

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I wasn't going to say anything, but, since it was accepted as the solution, I need to clarify.

I did some looking into this recently trying to figure out how to get multiline tags to have a bottom right and a top left leader landing. (Still haven't figured that out, BTW.) The leader start is actually the defined origin in the family. Not the one defined by the reference planes but one that is hard coded. Try moving stuff around in the family and you should see what I am talking about. The elements in the family act like a masking region. The border/leader offset affects how close the edge of the masking region is to the elements in the family.

[casquatch]

Vote!

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/tag-annotation-symbol-leader-location/idi-p/7438315 

[RobDraw]

Make me click and linky don't work.

[casquatch]

Not sure what the deal is with the link, I'm copying directly from the Idea's page. Maybe they don't allow linking?

Anyway, the idea is named "Tag / Annotation Symbol Leader location" if you want to just go to the Idea's page and search for it.

Sorry, not spamming 🙂 Just want to get this fixed in the software.