Level Head Symbols

[aaronrumple]

Custom Level Heads will not mirror correctly when text is included in the family. See attached file.

[gregcashen]

I posted on this topic a while back re: a level head type that included some text I added to a level head. It's not really a mirroring issue. If you use level heads the right way...i.e. click the check box to turn on/off level heads on one side or the other, the text only appears correctly on the side that the level head was created on. On the other side, it does the typical "bad mirroring" stuff, like inverting and ending up on the other side of the head. I don't know what the solution is...just wanted to add more info. I wish this worked better too!

Greg

[aaronrumple]

This has been brought to the attention of Revit development. The only work around right now is to make a left hand version which is a bit hard since you have to make it "blind" in the family editor. That takes care of the labels only. There is no work around for the plain text.

[Wes Macaulay]

What I do is import an AutoCAD line that has one end at 0,0. If you insert this origin-to-origin, the end of the line at 0,0 gives you the origin of the Revit family when it's inserted into the project.

This way, I can build annotation families (like level bubbles) and I know they'll end up exactly on the end of the level line.

[Steve_Stafford]

Okay, I admit it, I'm confused...why do you need to do this Wes?? Sorry but I must be foggy??

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[aaronrumple]

You can use reference planes to define the origin. There is a check box in the property panel of the ref. plane to do just this.

The problem with this in the level heads is that the mirroring is not being done correctly. So if you want to make a left handed level head you have to plan on how these objects will be mirrored "incorrectly"

[Wes Macaulay]

Hey Steve... hmmm.... I think it was to pull in an AutoCAD annotation so that the Revit level head would look exactly like the AutoCAD one, and my clients were upset that it seemed like Revit doesn't have a 0,0 in its co-ordinate system. So I showed them that 0,0 in AutoCAD becomes the origin for Revit families, or lands at the origin of a project.

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