HOLLOW CORE ANNOTATION

[Anonymous]

Has anyone been able to find or build a proper annotation for hollowcore or built a suitable model family that can be represented well by revits defaults?  I've tried building a tag that would be for a beam system based hollowcore model, but with no luck.  I need the annotation arrows to strech in both directions exactly like the annotation of a slab.  Anyone else have this problem/found a solution?

Thank you in advance!

[Mirko.Jurcevic]

Hi,

if you create precast hollow core slab with beam system tool, you can annotate it with beam system tag family (I've attached family as an example).

Tool for annotating beam system can be found on the Annotate ribbon tab on the far right end, under "Symbol" panel called "Beam system symbol"

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your response.  That tag is what we are currently using, i.e. the default tag for beam systems that comes in the library.  What I'm looking to do is change that tag so that performs the same way the tag for slabs performs, having the arrows show both beam span and range.  Does that make since.  The default beam system tag just doesn't give enough information for what we're showing with hollowcore.

[Mirko.Jurcevic]

What you trying to do is impossible with that kind of tag.

But there are several possible solutions (mostly manual):

1) create transparent floor slab, and tag it over beam system tag

2) draw other direction with line based detail item family

3) use text annotation, add arrows to the left and right (in case you want to enter beam length)

4) create Type parameters in your beam system tag with which you can control lengths of the arrows for beam lengths (not a very good option because length depends on the view scale and for each different length you need to create another type)