adding diameter symbol in text?

[sgermano]

Is there a way to add the diameter symbol in the text editer in revit? I like to label my ducts as being outdoor air (OA) exhuaust (EA) ect, but i cant get the dimater symbol in a line of text. Right now I have to tag the duct then add text after it, which is tedious especially when moving the tags and text around. Any ideas?
thnx

[Andre Carvalho]

I'm not sure i understood your question, but are you saying that you can't create a text line in Revit MEP and add the diameter symbol? I just tested here, typing a text and then adding alt+0248 (for a small diameter symbol) or alt+0216 (for a bigger diameter symbol) and both worked fine.

Andre Carvalho

[schrodingerscat]

I'm not sure i understood your question, but are you saying that you can't create a text line in Revit MEP and add the diameter symbol? I just tested here, typing a text and then adding alt+0248 (for a small diameter symbol) or alt+0216 (for a bigger diameter symbol) and both worked fine.

Andre Carvalho

Works on mine, good old alt+0178 and alt+0176 both work fine. Maybe you should have a look at character map.... although that program has disappeared from all the new drafting machines here... not sure why it would be removed....

[nubrun.188780]

Works on mine, good old alt+0178 and alt+0176 both work fine. Maybe you should have a look at character map.... although that program has disappeared from all the new drafting machines here... not sure why it would be removed....

I have not had luck with the same methods that worked in ACAD. For example I can no longer just us "%%c". In order to get around this you can go to Start->Run->charmap
and then copy and paste it from there. I hope this helps.

[nubrun.188780]

Is there a way to add the diameter symbol in the text editer in revit? I like to label my ducts as being outdoor air (OA) exhuaust (EA) ect, but i cant get the dimater symbol in a line of text. Right now I have to tag the duct then add text after it, which is tedious especially when moving the tags and text around. Any ideas?
thnx

If you use the default duct size tag, then the diameter symbol should show up. If you would like to add eaither OA, or EA before the size then i would modify the default duct size tag to incorporate that.

[sgermano]

I'm not sure i understood your question, but are you saying that you can't create a text line in Revit MEP and add the diameter symbol? I just tested here, typing a text and then adding alt+0248 (for a small diameter symbol) or alt+0216 (for a bigger diameter symbol) and both worked fine.

Andre Carvalho

Ahhh gotcha, I was not aware of that keystroke. I will try it. Yes I was just assuming that the good ol' %%D would work, but of course nothing from cad to revit is the same. Many thanks! I will print out that character map, Im assuming this is a text file that can be modified.

[BenSammis]

Just add a suffix to the label in the tag family using the symbol as described above.