Tilt-Up Wall Panel Tag

[Tom Weir]

Good Morning,
I have made an in-place family of 4 story Concrete Tilt-Up Panels for my project. I need a wall tag that works in plan and elevation. I can only seem to get the wall tag to work in plan and not in elevation. I have the label tied to the instance mark and not the type name. What am I doing wrong? I see that the beam tag works fine in elevation and plan, so I am puzzled.
Thanks and have a great day.
Tom Weir
Los Angeles

[shaunv68276]

Try in the elevation view. goto draughting tool bar, select Tag all not Tagged. highlight the walls option. Select OK. that should work.

[Tom Weir]

Shaun,
For some reason the wall tag does not show up in the dialog box for me to pick when I try your suggestion?!?!? hhhhhhmmmmm...any other ideas?
Thanks and have a great day.

Tom Weir
Los Angeles

[aggockel50321]

Just a guess, but check your view depth of the elevation. Make the far clip plane active & check in a floor plan to make sure it't beyond the wall your trying to tag.

[jkendsersky]

You cannot place wall tags in elevation or section views. There are probably many workarounds: text with leaders, sybmols etc.

[Tom Weir]

Joe,
aha, so that's the rub. I was hoping I would not have to re-do the tag, but just use the "tag all" method in order to avoid coordinaton errors. Oh well back to the drawing board.....I mean Revit screen.
Thanks and have a great day.

Tom Weir
Los Angeles

[shaunv68276]

Tom I apologise! I had the same issue a few months back. I solved the problem and placed it into my template, and took it for granted, thats how it worked. Wall tags do not tag in Elevation, but there is a way around it. What is needed is to create shared parameters for the wall style
then assign the shared parameter to a multi-catagory annotation symbol.
Multi Catogory symbols will tag in elevation. I can send you the template file aswell as the multi catogory tag and that way you can just transfer the project standards. To explain how to set it up is three pages of text. When I find some time to put it down in steps you will be the first to Know. :oops:

[aggockel50321]

Sorry Tom...

I guessed wrong.

[Tom Weir]

Shaun,
Yes, would you please send me your tags (tweir@bjase.com). I would like to see how you did it, before I blunder along on my own.....
And thanks Andrew for taking the time to discuss the issues, that's what is most important.
Thanks and have a great day

[ajayholland]

The generic walls in Revit have “Type Mark” as a family parameter and “Mark” as an instance parameter. Somehow, when I was hacking away on a shared parameter notation family, I’ve ended up with instance parameters for “type mark” and “type” that were created from a shared parameter file when I assigned a wall style from a key schedule.

When you apply the new style, read-only properties appear in the list of instance parameters. These properties are the same ones defined in the reference table.

I don’t want these parameters anymore. Is there a way to purge them from the wall families???

-AJH

[rgesner]

Shaun,

I'd appreciate a copy of your template file and multi catogory tag if you could emial it to me at rgesner@grpmack.com

Thanks - Rusty

[Mike Sealander]

Wall tags can be placed in elevation.