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Creating custom callouts

Creating custom callouts - Revit Tutorial

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Creating custom callouts

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- [Instructor] The next few videos deal with items that are a little more elusive than most. To help us round out our standards, we need to understand where those little bubbles are coming from that we use on the end of our callouts, sections, and pretty much every other descriptive icon in our drawing. Here, I'd like to create a callout bubble from scratch. Then we'll load it into our global template and make a new callout. So let's jump into Revit. Under Families, let's go New. Go to Annotations. I want to grab Generic Tag. I want to click Open. First thing I want to do is go to my Family Category and Parameters button right here, and scroll up to Callout Heads and click that. That's probably the most important part of this. Now, let's click OK. I'm going to zoom into here. I'm going to select this note and I'm going to delete it. Now, I'm just going to make a box. I'm going to go to Create, Line. On my Draw panel, I'm going to click on my Pick Lines button. I'm going to offset that…

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