Place the text symbol in your drawing area as shown. Add the Annotation Symbol by clicking Create -> Symbol.

Load the Family into the Line Based Detail component.īack in the Line Based Family. Now delete the red text and Save the file. You’ll see the Label being added to the intersection. Once the parameter is created in Revit click the green arrow to add it to the Label. In the resulting Edit Label Dialogue box click create at the bottom. Click close to the intersection to place the Label. In the drawing area click Create tab and Label. Now to add the text item we’ll create an Annotation symbol and load it into the Line based family. Draw the line in the drawing area from the left intersection to the right intersection as shown. Make sure the Line tool is selected and then select the Light Line. In the empty family click Create ribbon -> Line. Then select the Line Based Detail Component Family template. These lines you can use to show different services as example. To deactivate the view on the sheet, click View tab on the Ribbon bar, - Sheet Composition panel, click on Viewports to drop the menu, choose Deactivate view.In this article we will create Line based Details component that has text embedded into the line. On the View Control Bar, for Scale, select the desired scale. Drag the cursor to pan the view.Ĭhange the scale of the view. Right-click the activated view and click Pan Active View. The crop region for the view does not move. Pan the view within its viewport, so that only a portion of the view is visible on the sheet.

You can zoom in to the drawing area to see the elements more clearly. Only the contents of the active view display normally.

Revit displays the sheet title block and its contents in halftone (as shown below). Watch the status bar for the description of the viewport.Ĭlick Modify Viewports tab - Viewport panel - Activate View. Quick Tip: If views on the sheet overlap, press Tab until the correct view highlights. In the drawing area, select a view on the sheet.

This Blog will show you how to activate a view Port in Revit on the sheet. When you have a drawing sheet open in Revit and you suddenly notice content which needs to be added or modified (add dimensions, text or move an element etc) you don’t have to go back to the Project Browser and open the relevant view.

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