From the course: Revit: Structural Families
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Creating column tags
- [Instructor] In this video, I'd like to modify an existing column tag and force it to be at 45 degree angle. The problem with the one in revit now is we can only have one direction. Based on a glaring deficiency in the software. We're going to have to make four different rotation angles and put them on yes no visibility parameters. To get started, let's go to models, let's go to new. Let's select Imperial structural template. Let's click okay, let's go to the structure tab, let's click column. Let's drop a column and hit escape a few times. Okay, let's click the tag button on the quick access toolbar. I'll keep leader turned off. We're going to have to make our own leader anyway. So we're just going to pick a point right here. Okay, you can click this and kind of move it on out of the way. Let's click edit family. Select this tag, let's pull in the extends a little bit. What I want to do is rotate it, click on the…
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