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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 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. I'm going to go to my language. I'm going to go to Annotations. I'm going to grab Generic Tag, then click Open. The first thing we should do is on the Properties panel, let's click on our Family Category and Parameters Button. Let's scroll up to Callout Heads, then click Okay. Select this a little red note and hit Delete. On the Create tab, let's click Line. On the Draw panel, let's click on our Pick Lines button. Let's have it 1/8 of an inch. And…

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