A few months back I wrote about some of the weird rules for Revit Callouts when you use the ‘Reference Other View’ option.
There
are some strange and frustrating restrictions, which mean you need to
plan carefully about what view types/families to use for callouts, and
in fact for any views.
There are also some weird
restrictions in how Callouts work when you don’t use ‘Reference Other
View’ – I refer to those as “Real Callouts”. I am going to record those here.
Stop and Think – Which Parent View?
Before placing any “Real Callouts”, stop and think about which view you want to place the callout on – you should already have a good plan for how your drawing set referencing is going to work.
The reason for this is that once you place a Real Callout on a view, it does two things:
- It creates a new view that is automatically cropped to the extents of the callout that you just created.
- It places the callout element on your view – typically a dashed line rectangle with a circular…