Right Reading Text Labels

This week Jordan Mussett tackles the issue with text labels in hosted content.

There is a short list of families in Revit that you will need to host to the face of either a ceiling or a wall. A good example of this is smoke detectors. Depending on where they are, they can call for either a vertical face or a horizontal face. The problem comes in when there is a text annotation buried into the family. The one to the left below is hosted to the wall at 8'-0" off the floor, the one on the right is using the face of the ceiling at 9'-0" off the floor.

If this text is to read the same direction, there is some work that needs to be done in the Family Editor. First, save this family using a different name if you would like to preserve the integrity of the original or if you aren't 100% sure it will work, it is good to have a backup. Next, copy the Generic Annotation that is there and rotate it 90 degrees. Align and lock to the vertical Reference Plane. The original label us up-side-down because the intent of this family originally is that it be placed on the ceiling, the generic annotation label will right itself in the respective views in the project.