RAC 2009 Door Tags

[azmz3]

I dont know if anyone has found a workaround for this, or if 2010 fixes this issue. Why can we not line up the door tags with doors that are on an angle like in the example posted here.This is really turning out to be a big issue for us, I dont know about anyone else though.

[Andre Carvalho]

Edit your Tag family, go to Family Category and parameters and mark the option "Rotate with component".

Does this help?

Andre Carvalho

[azmz3]

You would think that would work, but no. Doing that lines up the tag along the threshold of the door, not in the location shown in the example.it also takes away the horizontal/vertical control of the tag. I actually made a new tag, and rotated at 45 degrees and loaded that into my project, that way I can still adjust horizontal or vertical, but it keeps it at the angle I need and I can move the tag where I want it.

[btrusty]

im sorry, i am confused.

do you want the door tag to be rotated so that is in the same angle of the wall / door?

[azmz3]

I wanted the door tag to be able to rotate to line up with the door panel at a 45 degree angle. OOTB, Revit wont do this, so I made a new family, rotated it at the 45 degree angle and it works for what I need.

[btrusty]

duplicate your door tag family
rotate the text 45 degrees
set the doors that need different angle to the different family

[twiceroadsfool]

It looks like youre trying to match the NCS door tag, which sits up against the panel of the door symbol. Heres the caveat with that in Revit:

The door tag sits at the Origin of the door. So you can do one of the following:

1. Make the door tag so it works perfectly with one sized door (offset the label from the origin of the Tag family by roughly half the dim of the door wodth). On doors larger and smaller this wont be in the right spot and youll have to move it.

2. Move the origin of all of your door families to one side (the side with the panel), and then make the tag set to rotate with component, and the necessary offset to clear the symbol of the panel thickness. Then watch the staff cry as doors flex from one side, LOL.

3. Make multiple door tags, with different offsets / placements of the Label, and spend your days and nights switching tag versions per each instance of door in your project. Have fun with that, hehe.

4. Leave the door tag in the center of the opening, as Revit places it. Might not be ideal from a graphical point of view, but its "free" in terms of time and money, and the same information is present.

Choice is easy for me, when i read it that way. :)

[azmz3]

#4 is the ideal solution, but the way things are going in my office, on this pilot project, I went with #3 actually. I have 2 separate tags, one for angled doors, on a 45, and one for doors on a 90 degree angle, this seems to work, it is only 2 tags, and as long as everyone knows about it, it should be fairly easy to manage, I hope.