jshebert
2007-06-08, 04:08 AM
After working on this for about 3 hours, I have to submit this to the crew at Autodesk and beg for help. Here's the issue in RAC 2008:
When in Plan, I make a Callout (Detail). When I activate the crop region (or whatever term it is now for the LEFT Crop Button), the detail callout just disappears completely. I can draw new ones, but can't see them. I can't see the old ones. Note that I haven't moved the crop region at all, and it totally encompasses the detail and about 200' extra in every direction. Annotation crop is left as-is. When I deactivate the crop region, the callouts magically reappear on-screen. I have set everything i can think of and click on in View Properties for both the parent and callout view, to no avail. Floor plan callouts work just fine, but the detail callouts do not.
Going further, I decided that it must have been something I did wrong in my template. So I went back to a different template, and sure enough, it works with no problem. I thought this odd, so I decided to go further. I revisited the out-of-the-box templates that come with RAC2008, and the default.rte works just fine (which i built the latter template from). I then investigate the other out-of-the-box templates, one-by-one, and they ALL FAIL THE TEST! So, what I am left with is hours and hours of customization to a faulty template, provided by Autodesk, that is completely useless since I can't make a document set where I can show detail callouts on a plan view.
Unless that is, there is a quick fix I am missing, which the Revit gods can dispatch to save the day.
Someone else touched on this topic, and it wasn't solved there either, from what was posted. Sounds eerily similar, but not exactly like the aforementioned behavior. The thread is:
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=45517&page=2&pp=10&highlight=callout
This really is kind of a deal-breaker, especially when the boss walks in and his or her users are running around trying to figure out why the 25 detail callouts on the floor plans aren't actually showing up on the printed documents. Last time I checked, pretty much everyone wants to see those! I hope its something I missed and not really a bug, but I pretty much brute-forced every combination of settings in VP, and no dice.
When in Plan, I make a Callout (Detail). When I activate the crop region (or whatever term it is now for the LEFT Crop Button), the detail callout just disappears completely. I can draw new ones, but can't see them. I can't see the old ones. Note that I haven't moved the crop region at all, and it totally encompasses the detail and about 200' extra in every direction. Annotation crop is left as-is. When I deactivate the crop region, the callouts magically reappear on-screen. I have set everything i can think of and click on in View Properties for both the parent and callout view, to no avail. Floor plan callouts work just fine, but the detail callouts do not.
Going further, I decided that it must have been something I did wrong in my template. So I went back to a different template, and sure enough, it works with no problem. I thought this odd, so I decided to go further. I revisited the out-of-the-box templates that come with RAC2008, and the default.rte works just fine (which i built the latter template from). I then investigate the other out-of-the-box templates, one-by-one, and they ALL FAIL THE TEST! So, what I am left with is hours and hours of customization to a faulty template, provided by Autodesk, that is completely useless since I can't make a document set where I can show detail callouts on a plan view.
Unless that is, there is a quick fix I am missing, which the Revit gods can dispatch to save the day.
Someone else touched on this topic, and it wasn't solved there either, from what was posted. Sounds eerily similar, but not exactly like the aforementioned behavior. The thread is:
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=45517&page=2&pp=10&highlight=callout
This really is kind of a deal-breaker, especially when the boss walks in and his or her users are running around trying to figure out why the 25 detail callouts on the floor plans aren't actually showing up on the printed documents. Last time I checked, pretty much everyone wants to see those! I hope its something I missed and not really a bug, but I pretty much brute-forced every combination of settings in VP, and no dice.