Controlling Annotation Display

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SIMON DICKINSON: Hello.

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My name is Simon Dickinson.

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In this video, we are going to look at how we

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can customize our annotation.

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We will start by looking at text styles and dimension styles.

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We'll then look at how we can set our default element tags,

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and finally, how we can set the annotation for our boundary

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conditions.

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Let's look at the text styles.

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By creating our own text styles and removing

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the ones we do not want, it will help

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us to control our standards.

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We can create new text styles by reduplicating or renaming

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an existing one.

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Renaming the text styles would be my recommendation,

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as the default text styles cannot be purged but can be

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renamed.

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As well as being able to control the size of font used

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by the text, we can also control other aspects of a text

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annotation, such as arrowheads, tab spacing, and background

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styles, either opaque or transparent.

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We can now do the same for our dimension styles,

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again, duplicating or renaming the existing ones.

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We have quite a few dimensions styles

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as we will need to consider the type of dimension

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we are creating--

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linear, angular, radial, et cetera.

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We can control all aspects of our dimension styles

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from the text styles, lead line weights, tick marks,

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and arrow styles.

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We can also control our unit display

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if we're using the system units, which we set up earlier

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or our custom unit style.

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We can also have alternative units,

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so we can display two different unit values on our dimensions.

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We are now going to look at our tags.

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All elements can be tagged in Revit if an appropriate tag is

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loaded.

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We can see which tags we have loaded

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and which tag is going to be our default tag by clicking

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on the down arrow on the tag panel of the annotation ribbon

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and then load the tags and symbols.

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Using this dialog, it is possible to load new tags

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by clicking on the Load button.

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By selecting a tag in the dropdown,

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we can set it as the default annotation for that category.

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When using the tag on placement option

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when creating beams and columns, it

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is the default tag which will be used, although this tag can

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be changed afterwards.

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We can create new tax by starting a new generic tag

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family and changing its category.

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We then create labels which will display the information

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from the element once tagged.

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In addition to the tags, we also have the Beam Annotation tool.

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This combines multiple tags and spot elevations to automate

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the annotation of beams.

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This tool can annotate all beams in a view or just one selected

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by the user.

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Finally, we can check our annotation

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used for boundary conditions.

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This is accessed on the Boundary Conditions Settings

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tab on the Structural Settings dialog box.

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We also set the symbol spacing value.

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Please note, this is a printed value,

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so the spacing in this case is