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Is it possible to control the text box separatly for each view title? Is it possible to set up some sort of parameter to accomplish this?
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Which aspect of the text box are you wanting to control? Text Size? Text location? Text box length? Elaborate for us please.
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I would like to control the text box length. The attached jpg shows how the text is uneven. I would like to be able to control how the text so that the text is somewhat equal over each other. Not all titles are the same length so it would be nice to be able to stretch the text back and forth individually some how.
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*bump* I'm having the same Issue as MrBob....though I don't necessarily need fully adjustable text boxes. I just need to modify the current ones to make the text box longer. TIA...
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We don't use the stock view title because our office starts with the bubble, then the text so have two of our own view titles that we use - one with a short text & a longer one.
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Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't really help me figure out how to edit that family.......
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Sorry for the delay in reply... you know how work can be *bleh* You want to edit the Viewtitle family to control the length (and possibly the text font to make it look pertier  . Unfortunately it's not as easy as clicking the 'Edit Family' button like with other families. What you want to do is open the Viewtitle file through the File>Open dialog. The Viewtitle families can be found at drive:/path/to/your/imperialLibrary/Annotations/ (mine was: c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\RAC 2008\Imperial Library\Annotations). There will bean assortment of files named osmething like 'Viewtitle-description.rfa.' You will want to edit one of those to make the changes yoou are looking for. Now, once you've made the changes, you will want to put that changed viewtitle back in the family. There are 2 ways to do this. The easy way which does not save your changes and only changes the Viewtitle in the current project, and the diificult way which saves the changes and allows you to use the changed viewtitle in future projects. The easy way is to just click the 'Load into Project' button on you left tool bar. This will load your changes into the project you are working on and you will see the changes instantly. It will NOT save the family. The diffucult way is a result of not being able to save the family (usually the Imperial Library is read-only unless you change the files yourself). So save the newly modified Viewtitle family to your personal library directory (I keep mine in a folder called "Viewtitles" so I don't have to sift through all the annotation families to find them). Once it is saved, you can then click the "Load into Project" to send it to the project you are wanting it in. In the project, you will need to tell the View that you want to use the new Viewtitle (if you kept the same file name, you will not need to do this). Click the viewtitle on the sheet and go to its properties. Click 'Edit/New'. From here you can either duplicate the view if you want a new viewtitle so that the original remains, or you can just edit the parameters to overwrite the original viewtitle. Select the drop down box next to "Title" and then select the viewtitle you just loaded into the project. Click OK till you are back to the project screen, et Voila! Let me know if you have any problems. Good luck!
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Yeah, I know how it is. Thanks for taking the time to answer. :-D You posted just in time, actually, since the set goes out this week. I haven't tried it yet, but your directions look pretty straightforward and I don't think I'll have any issues. Cheers! --Meg
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argh. double post.
Edited on: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 6:26:00 PM
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NP.. I just wish I had more time to help people. I'm hoping to convice my university to let me start a Revit class in the Architecture Program. I love helping people, I just have no time to do it 
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Hello there, Ok so I am having similar problems with my view title. The only thing is I can't get my title to no get cropped and automatically return to two lines. If I have: KITCHEN ISLAND for my view title it will show it as: KITCHENISLAND. Not: KITCHEN ISLAND. But if I title my view as: KITCHEN-ISLAND It works fine and doesn't write it out on two lines. I need to make it so it writes on one line only because, the bottom line of text is sitting ontop of the scale. Look at the images I attached. They explain themselves. I have gone into the Annotation Family and make the 'View Name' Label really long and this did not fix the issue. Does anyone have any ideas that can help? Thanks, Lorne
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I am having the same problem in RAC 2008. Revit does not allow you to add a custom shared parameter field to a system family annotation (which really sucks by the way). We usually use 2 lines fot our viewport titles. A major descrtion and a minor for remarks. I have some very LONG titles now - most of them cannot fit in the viewport box for details. I wanted to create one label for details that is smaller text and a shorter text box so it forces a second line. I would have another label for all other viewports that have the space for a single line of text. the label is using the "view title' field in both cases, but I have assigned it a yes/no parameter for visibility in my 2 types of view titles. Problem is, they show up in boith cases regardless of the visibility setting. Is this because they are the same label? Do I have to create 2 different view title families? I would prefer to have it as multiple types within one family. Any ideas, thoughts, comments???? Thanks.
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We have a couple of different view titles that we use. Each one uses the same information, we just assign which one we want to use on the sheet. Yes, they are seperate families - a short title that will stack the title in two lines and a longer one. These are each fixed size and neither of course has the automatic parametric line.
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If only the text "box" had alignable, lockable, parametric boundaries we wouldn't have this problem. I have come up with a work around here in our office to consolidate all view titles into a single family with easy-stretch lengths. The only problem is finding time to implement my idea. So, I shall post my idea here to see if anyone wants to test my theory before I get around to it: Make a series of these labels that have varying lengths of manually adjusted sizes (3" wide, 4" wide, 6" wide, 8" wide, 12" wide, etc.) and stack them on top of each other. Control visibility of stacked labels of varying sizes with conditional parameters based on the length so that as the length changes is cycles through the various length boxes. Left and Bottom Justify the label boxes and you should have a View Title that wraps if it needs to, but will extend the text as needed as the title gets longer. I'll post what I come up with if I get a chance to take a shot at it. Edited on: Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 2:26:58 PM
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OK, so it got stuck in my head and I wasn't going to get anything done until I tested my theory. I got the family all working, but I forgot the whole interfacing with annotations thing. To make is as simple as possible I'll have to look closer later. Do instance parameters even do anything in this case or do you have to go with Types? Here's a down-and-dirty version of the family if someone wants to play with it.
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