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I'm curious as to the logic behind the way revit names elevations - more specifically interior elevations. sometimes i'll get an ordered sequence, ie 1-A, 1-B, 1-C, etc...sometimes it appends with the word "Elevation" ie Elevation 1-a, Elevation 1-b, etc...sometimes the number sequence skips, ie 1-A, 1-B, 5-D...I thought perhaps the order in which i create the elevations had something to do with it, but that doesnt seem to be the case.  the interior elevation tag we use has four tags that can be turned on and off as needed, so I will typically place the tag pointing to north wall, and turn on the east, south, and west arrows as needed. like i said, sometimes I get an nice ordered sequence, and sometimes a random number will get thrown in the mix. Just trying to wrap my head around why its that way - especially if theres someting in my workflow or elevation tag I need to tweak to 'correct' it. I dont beleive this is specific to a certain version of revit, but im on 2016.

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If you are using the stock tag, the view number sequence is based on your last sequence and this may be temporary.   At this point in time, the view only has one identifier and that MUST be unique!  Let's say that elevation is numbered Elevation 1-a. If you pick more points in that callout, Revit will continue with 1-b,1-c... in order of your pick.  Placing a new elevation will now get you Elevation 2-a.  

This is ONLY A NAME!   It has nothing to do with anything else.  I ask our staff to always rename the view so we know what it really is.   Who knows what Elevation 1-a is looking in the browser!

Our rule is view names are upper/lower case if they are not used on the sheet.  So the view name might be 'Lobby Elevation Left' and we might set the name for the sheet to be "LOBBY ELEVATION".... All of the lobby elevations will say the same thing on our DWG's with the sheet view number being the unique qualifier.  BTW, we will also set the view sort so all lobby elevations will be in the same folder with the lobby plans.

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thanks for the explanation. I ran some tests, so to speak, and i see the sequential ordering  - whichever callout gets placed first is given a sequential number and the letter A. From there, Revit names them in a clockwise order - same number - B, same number - C., etc.This only works if youre using a multiple callout interior elevation tag. I did notice in instances where Revit cannot determine bounding elements of the wall being elevated, it adds  "elevation" to the name.

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