Short answer is as you already suspect: “no.” So sorry. Have you found a practical use for this? Post in the comments, I’d love to hear about it. But you can bet I will be exploring it further. I am not sure if this little “reporting parameter” behavior I stumbled on here will prove useful in a practical sense. They are useful for those cases where a true tag will not work, like certain types of finish annotation or other very specialized documentation. But ONLY generic annotation families (Symbols) can report to Note Block schedules. All of the Revit tags and symbols are annotation families. They are view-specific, adjust with the scale of the view and can be embedded in other families. Sort and group it how you like.Īnnotation families are very useful. Go ahead and create a Note Block schedule to list them all. To edit the invisible fields, use the Properties palette. To edit the visible fields, you can click right on the symbol. Save the family, load it into a project and place a few. So D is now both a driving and a reporting parameter. Notice that you can add the dimension parameter D to the label! This basically means that the symbol will be able to tell you how big it is!!! Create another label (Create tab > Text panel > Label button). So I drew the circle, added a diameter dimension and then labeled the dimension with a family parameter that I called D. I wanted the circle to be parametric: I wanted to be able to flex the size of the circle. We have been able to do this for quite some time in Revit. When you OK out of the dialog, you can add some graphics like a circle or hexagon if you like. Any parameters that you add but do not include in the label on the right will still be able to receive values in the project and more importantly, will still appear in the Note Block schedule! Just add the parameters, but do not put them in the label at the right. In other words, you can add “hidden” fields. You can add several additional parameters beyond what you need to appear in the symbol. You can add as many as you like.Ī really interesting tidbit here. However, in some cases you may want Number or Integer. Click the Add Parameter icon, configure the parameter as you like, usually a Text parameter so that you can type in anything you want. These will become the fields that we can edit. At the bottom left corner of the dialog, you can add custom parameters to the symbol. This is because we left the category set to Generic Annotations. When creating the Generic Annotation, if you want to have fields, add a Label like you would in any annotation family. ![]() Got it? The family is a Generic Annotation, the tool is Symbol and the schedule is Note Block. ![]() (View tab > Create panel > Schedules drop down > Note Block). ![]()
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