From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Working with text

Working with text - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Working with text

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- [Eric] Let's talk about text. I'll be the first to lie to someone and state there's no such thing as regular text in Revit. There is a text editor and you're actually going to use it quite a bit. This video is going to go through the basics of adding text to a model and to a drafting view. So let's get started. Let's jump into Revit workflow 08. We're in a demo plan. That works. I'm going to zoom in on this stuff that we have demolished. I'm going to click on the little A right here or I can go to Annotate and click on the little A here. Either way, it's the same A. Now, text, I don't want 1/4 Ariel. I'm going to hit the drop down here. I'll go 3/32 Ariel, but look at the garbage we've already brought in from those AutoCAD drawings. Let's grab 3/32 inch Ariel. I want to Edit Type. I want to scrunch up the width factor. Type in .8. The Leader Arrowhead I'll click the drop down here and go Arrow, Filled, 15 degrees. Click Apply. Click OK. Now, we have a modified place text contextual…

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