Sections/ Elevations/ Callouts

[brd]

I am thoroughly confused with the way the visibility graphics work with section, callouts and elevation tags. When you draw any one of these three in your view, Revit automatically places that tag in all the views as well, right? Well I've got all of my plan callouts on one of my floor plan views and I need to show them on another plan as well. In view template for my new plan, I turned off callouts in the visibility graphics long ago(and I've had them turned off all along). When I turned the callouts back on in the visibility graphics a few minutes ago, the callouts don't show up? For the life of me, I cannot figure out why some callouts/sections/elevation tags show up in other views while other don't.

Now the obvious solution seems to be to just draw a new callout on my new floor plan and just reference the callout that I already have. But why doesn't it show up already when I just turn the callouts to visible? Shouldn't it have been there all along once the callout was created in another view?

I know I'm missing something simple, please fill me in. Thanks in advance!

[Teresa.Martin]

Dear BRAD;
Actually the Section, Elevation and Callout tags have different display settings.
Sections for instance can be set to only appear at a particular scale. The Section instance parameter Hide at Scales Coarser than establishes a scale at which sections are either shown or hidden in other views. For example, a section tag can be hidden at scales coarser than 1/4”=1’0”.

Elevation Tags can be hidden per view (by category>Visibility Graphics) or per tag (click on the tag, right click and choose Hide Annotation) Note: just about any annotation can be hidden in any view using this option...levels, column grids, etc.

Callout tags only appear in the view which they are drawn. You can duplicate a view with detailing and the callout will be copied to the new view. For instance if you duplicate the first floor plan to make an enlarge floor plan and choose duplicate with detailing, the callouts and other annotation will show up in the new view. For the most part those callouts are view specific.
If you need to see the same callout on another sheet/floor/view, you need to reference it back to the original callout, otherwise you will be creating multiple callout views.

I hope this helps.
Best regards,
Teresa Martin
Senior Application Specialist
Ideate Inc.

[jakehill]

I realize this is an old thread, but I am using Revit Arch 09 and we have several views that aren't displaying the elevation callout for the first level and yet the other elevation callouts for the second and third floors display? none are hidden or temp hidden?
is there a way to place a new callout without copying and creating a new level?

[Devin_82]

You can place an elevation tag using the "Reference Other View" pulldown in the Options Bar. All you need to know is the name of the original elevation you have placed. It is a work around, not a solution to the real problem of why it isn't showing up. Hope this helps for now.

[nancy.mcclure]

Jake, also check the crop of the elevation view itself - if it doesn't extend down into the primary range of the lower floor, the elevation tag may not be appearing for that reason. Also check to see if another team member has assigned that tag into a scope box, which may be excluding its visibility from your view, which is outside of the range of that scope box.