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iamian33

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Greetings.

I am trying to find a way to highlight a few rooms on a large floor plan for a presentation.  The plan is already coloured for various purposes, but some of the rooms are being 'called out' for further presentation. 

I have already created a type of callout that we can place in the plan, but now we need to add the room number to this callout.  So I was thinking ... if I can simply override the graphics of the room to 'boldly' outline and create a new room tag that simply shows the room number, I'd be done.

But I cannot seem to find a way to adjust the room object to show the boundry.  Is this possible?

I am open to other suggestions, as well ...

Ian

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Why not create a separate sub plan of the area in question at a larger scale. this will highlight and make it possible to make these rooms more important, for discussion.

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Thank you so much for your input but I'm not quite sure what you are suggesting, an actual callout?  I would have gone this way but, of course, the designers proceeded on their one and developed plans, either by hand sketch or in autocad, and I am going thru the DD plans to identify the rooms AFTER THE FACT.

The sad truth ...

I was able to use 'override graphics by element' and make the room's boundary thickened and coloured but I cannot plot these boundaries.  This confuses me as I thought that the room reference lines could plot.  My hope was to adjust the graphics of the rooms and use a modified room tag, but I am stuck with not being able to plot the room boundary.

Still hoping for suggestions ...

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