Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012: No Experience Required

Placing Text and Annotations

Text in Revit Architecture is going to be a love/hate relationship for every Revit user. You will love text because it will automatically scale with the view's scale. You will hate it because the text editor is something of a throwback from an earlier CAD application. Either way, the procedure for adding text does not change with your feelings toward it.

To begin, open the file you have been following along with. If you did not complete Chapter 4, go to the book's web page at www.sybex.com/go/revit2012ner. From there you can browse to Chapter 5 and find the file called NER-16.rvt.

The objective of this procedure is to simply add text to the model, format it, and then add and format a leader:

1. In the Project Browser, ...