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Hi,I am a newbie from Turkey, working as an architect. Here is my question. I hope you can help me out. We are working on a bilingual project. Unfortunately, company we are working for is not using Revit. They are asking us to export different languages in room tags to different layers in autocad, so they can turn on/off when they want.Is there any way to make this happen?And, ain addiation, what is the best solution to layer management in Revit Exports? I am open to suggestions.Thank you for now! 

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Have you read about layer maping in your Help?

http://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2014/ENU/?guid=GUID-E0B73981-9496-43CD-A358-581FEF3A3008 

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Thank you! Yes, I have. But it just allows you to control the layer name/color etc. i want to choose and set the layer of a tag member. Like "Area" to "Tag_Area" Language1 to "Tag_Lang1" Language2 to "Tag_Lang2".  But instead, it is exporting all tag family members (area, name, floor finish, ceiling finish etc.) into one layer as a block.Am i missing something? 

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you can add a new object style within the room tag family.  go to:

manage > object styles > modify subcategories > new

create as many sub-categories under room as you wish.  then, when you load family into the project, the subcategory will appear in the project and when you export you can set that sub category to a new layer name.

however, this only applies to linework, and labels cannot be assigned to a sub category for some reason (that I know of, anyone?), so there is no way to separate different labels to different layers,  maybe this could be an upgrade for revit 2015? 

I think the easiest thing would be to create a duplicate floor plan and change the room tag types to show language B within that view.  export.  open in cad and isolate layer.  change the layer name and paste the language B tags into the original export.

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