Rotating tag door

[Pierre-Nelson NAVARRA]

Hi,
How to rotate a door tag?
I can only see "Vertical or Horizontal" alignement...

[roy.70844]

I was looking at this just the other day. Couldn't get it to rotate.
Any ideas.....anyboby.........? Please tell me I'm missing something easy.

Roy

[ijnicholas]

These tags dont rotate other than vert and hor.
However, in the family editing mode of the tag, there is a parameter to "rotate with component" in the Settings menu > Family category and parameters command that might work for you.
nicholas iyadurai

[dpasa]

Great tip! Very useful

[Pierre-Nelson NAVARRA]

If the door is like this?
I'd like to rotate with a 30° angle....is it still possible?

[gwnelson]

How about a workaround:

Tag all the doors & turn tags off in VG. Add your own text tags. Rotate like a spinning hubcap.

[dhurtubise]

Build a custom tag that is already rotated to 30°

[Pierre-Nelson NAVARRA]

Allright, thx.

[jsteinhauer]

Where do you stop then? What if I have to tag a door, window or casework that is 0°, 5°, 15°, 30°. I need to create a custom pre-rotated tag for every angle? Buildings are rairly simple boxes these days. Not trying to attack your logic, just the idea that Revit doesn't allow users to rotate a tag. Sometimes CAD has it's advantages. Crazy Talk!

Jeff S.



Build a custom tag that is already rotated to 30°

[dhurtubise]

Once you;ve build one, wheres the problem of having all the angle in your library?
And honestly, i would never trade the ability to Tag all Not Tag for a cad system .. ever ;-)

[twiceroadsfool]

Where do you stop then? What if I have to tag a door, window or casework that is 0°, 5°, 15°, 30°. I need to create a custom pre-rotated tag for every angle? Buildings are rairly simple boxes these days. Not trying to attack your logic, just the idea that Revit doesn't allow users to rotate a tag. Sometimes CAD has it's advantages. Crazy Talk!

Jeff S.

Frakly, this is the point in the conversation when you need to evaluate what beelfits Revit is saving you, and what benefits you are defeating by asking for such a feature.

For instance:

I very similar desire was present in our office recently: Someone wanted to tag all of the Fire Extinguishers on a Life Safety plan, but they wanted the tag to be a square for Cabinet Style, and a Circile for Hook on Wall Style. SOooo... They built two seperate tags, and had to manually go through the entire model and LS Plan, to MAKE SURe they used the rigth tag on the right extinguisher, because revit wont check that for you.

My suggestion to them, was bag the circle and square item, and make one Tag that simply read a Type Parameter Value and displayed it with a Label. This way, you arent manually keeping track of something that Revit can track automatically. Theres no point to spending time on that, in my opinion.

I can appreciate wanting things to grahpically appear a certain way, but im of the opinion that adding maunal controls to something that Revit can already control on its own, is a non-value-adding practice.

If you have needs to display some angular data from a family, id venture a guess that the angle information is already stored as some type of a parameter in your family. Id make it a shared parameter, and display it in the tag, if its such as issue. If its just rotating the tag so it looks parallel with the window on the drawing.... Well, id get over it, a la the Elevation Markers, and the Revision Scheduler that we cannot change. :)

[Pierre-Nelson NAVARRA]

Maybe a solution but...still having questions...

See the pictures attached.
Actually, I made a tag with a line grouped.
So, I can add an angle parameter controled by type.

It works but :
- I can't understand how to control the origin
- I add an angle aperture parameter in my family door and I can't automaticaly link it with my angle aperture in my family tag door...

[kmarquis]

I found a great way to fix this with yes/no parameters. I needed an angled casework tag and the 'rotate with component' option wasn't working. In the casework tag family I created a new type called "angled". I copied and pasted the same label and angled it 40 degrees to match the plan orientation. I attached a yes/no parameter for each label so that in the "Angled" type the orthangonal one would not show up and in the "Orthangonal" type the angled label would not show. Works great!

[rross.108280]

I have been working on angles and parameters recently. I found you need to create you Reference line from the intersecting reference planes. That will lock the end of the reference line to the intersection of the planes. Also I found that setting the reference plan "Is Reference" setting; typically it is set to weak.



Maybe a solution but...still having questions...

See the pictures attached.
Actually, I made a tag with a line grouped.
So, I can add an angle parameter controled by type.

It works but :
- I can't understand how to control the origin
- I add an angle aperture parameter in my family door and I can't automaticaly link it with my angle aperture in my family tag door...