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ShawnH1

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Joined: Tue, Feb 17, 2009
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Howdy all, I have uploaded the new 2012 version of Revit Architecture and all seems to be good apart from the tagging aspect of structural beams. First noticed that when I tried to load a timber beam from the International Library, it is automatically 'Analytical'. This makes it impossible to edit the family or to mark it in the properties display. Also I can't find and analytical annotation mark for it in any library. Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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Shawn

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emgeeo

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Joined: Wed, Mar 12, 2008
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What do you mean by 'Automatically Analytical'?

Do you mean to say that it is a single thick line?  Structural beams display as single lines in Coarse views.  If you over-ride the category in VV to display as Fine (you can over-ride individual categories and not the whole view) it should show up as a beam with width.

As for the tag, you just need to load a structural beam tag.  If there isn't one out-of-the-box, you can create it very simply.

Start with any annotations family template.

Change the category to structural framing.

Create a Label to read the Type Name.

Make sense?

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