Tag Leader Enhancements

You now have more control over tag leaders. Both the start and end points of the leader can be set to free and positioned manually. Tag outline geometry is more flexible letting you control and snap leader positions more accurately.

Customize attached leader start location

When creating or editing tag families in the Family Editor, elements making up the tag have a parameter, Exclude From Leader Outline, to exclude them from the tag outline geometry. The tag outline geometry controls where leaders from the tag are automatically positioned. You can exclude geometry to control where the leader is attached to the tag.

Example
Tag outline includes all geometry.	Room name not included in tag outline geometry.

See Tag Instance Properties.

Leader Start and End Point Placement

Leaders have instance properties allowing them to be positioned manually. Select the leader and in the Properties palette, set the Leader Start parameter and/or the Leader End parameter to "Free" and manually position the start or end point of the leader.

Note: Leader start and end positioning may be affected by Leader Outline and Leader Snap Reference parameters enabled in geometry of the tag family. Edit the tag family to change these parameters.

The existing leader end parameter, Leader Type, has been renamed to Leader End, with the same options and behavior as previous releases.

When Leader Start is set to Free Start, the leader start can snap to the default four sides of the tag outline. If additional snap candidates are needed, any line in a tag family can be designated as a snap reference by enabling the Leader Snap Reference parameter.

See Change the Tag Leader.

Leader Snapping

Leader snapping has been refined, making it easier to snap leaders in various workflows. When a leader start point is set to free, you may snap the position of the leader to different positions on the tag geometry. Select geometry in the tag family and enable the Leader Snap Reference property. Now this geometry is valid as a snap point for a free end leader.

Free end leader snapped to top of number box.

A leader set to Free End can now snap to its host geometry and some related objects.

Snap previews have been improved for tags, and the ability to horizontally/vertically snap to other tag geometry has been expanded.

Leaders set to Free Start or Free End have been integrated with Object Snaps and Overrides.

Revit.ini options are available to customize this functionality. See Annotation Leader Options in Revit.ini.

This feature was suggested by customers on the Ideas forum (Idea 1, Idea 2, Idea 3, Idea 4) and is described on the product road map.