Having trouble getting your Revit families to show 2D annotation symbols on hosted sloped surfaces? In this video, I'll show you a super quick fix to get your graphics to show correctly!

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Hey, happy Sunday!

I'm Chelsea from TheStudentArchitect.com which is an online space with resources for architects and architecture students.

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So, today I'm going to show you how to show annotation symbols for Revit families on hosted sloped surfaces. So you can see right here I have a lighting fixture that I have in a flat ceiling as well as a sloped ceiling. And you can see in the 3D view that there's one that's flat and one that's sloped. And you can see these are the same fixture because if I select both of them, you can see in the Properties Panel that they're the same family type.

The difference is, they're showing up graphically different. So the non-sloped ceiling is showing the 2D annotative symbol whereas the sloped ceiling is not.

See also: How to Create Sloped Ceilings in Revit

So luckily this is a very quick fix, and if you're running into an issue where your sloped ceilings or sloped surfaces aren't showing your 2D annotative symbolic elements, then I'm gonna show you how to fix it.

So what you need to do is go into the family itself, so I'll just double click on this family here. And all you need to do is go to the Properties Panel and under "Other" you should see an option for "Maintain Annotation Orientation"

I can shift that over a little bit. Right now you can see that it's checked off, but as soon as I check it on and then load this fixture back into the project, we'll overwrite the existing version, and now you can see that 2D annotative symbol on the sloped ceiling as well.

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♥ Chelsea

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See also: How to Create Sloped Ceilings in Revit

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