This post originally appeared on Enjoy Revit’s blog and has been reposted here with permission.

There are some families which include annotations. And some of them can be more convenient to use if locations of texts are parametric.

Above are common level symbol we are using. What do you think is the best way to express those at documents using Revit?

The family needs to..

1. have parameters to manipulate gap between levels.
2. have texts which follow levels. (both number & location)

The way I found is..

Make a text to a group with invisible lines, then you can make dim labels which can control location of the text.

I'm not saying this is the best way. But it's considerable.

You can download above family as usual.