Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Element Visibility Settings dialog box, you can control the detail level of the
nestedsymbol'sdisplay. PipesdisplayasasinglelineinCoarseandMedium
detail levels, so those two check boxes should remain selected for a valve
family, and the Fine check box should be deselected.
Text and Labels
You can use text or labels in your symbols along with linework and filled
regions. Text is simply text within your symbol that does not change. For
example, if your thermostat symbol always contains only the letter
T
, you
can use text in the annotation family. The only way to change the text is
to modify it directly in the family by clicking it to change its value. If you
want to be able to change the value of a text object in the family through the
family's properties, youneedtousealabel.Labelsactinasimilar manner to
attributes in an Autodesk
®
AutoCAD
®
block, and they display the value of
the parameter to which they are assigned.
Toplacetextintoyourannotationfamily,clicktheTextbuttonontheCreate
tab within the Family Editor. Select the desired text style from the Type
Selector in the Properties palette. If the text style you want to use does not
exist, you can create it. When you create a text style in a family and load the
family into another family or a project file, the text style does not carry over
into the file into which you are loading. This means that if you want to use
the text style in the project, you also need to create it within the project. It
is possible to have a text style in a family with the same name as a text style
in your project but different settings, such as font or text height. This can be
particularly confusing when it comes to fonts. Your default font and default
text heights are important considerations for your implementation. If you
wanttouseanythingotherthanthedefaultfont(Arial),youneedtonotonly
setupyourprojecttemplatewithallthenecessarystylesbutalsocreateyour
own family templates.
In previous versions of Revit, you could rename the RFT files by changing
the
.rft
filename extension to
.rfa,
modify and save them, and then
rename them back to RFT files in order to create custom family templates.
With Revit 2015, you cannot open an RFA file that is a renamed RFT file.
If you really need a library of custom family templates, you can create RFA
files that have all the settings for each family category you need, and then
use those files by copying and renaming them.
