I’m just now starting to get into Dynamo and Visual Programming (programming in general), and I’ve been given a task for a Revit project with lots of text. I think everyone using Revit knows the quality of Text Notes, they’re only slightly better than the text boxes in MS Paint!
Basically, I need to take a large amount of text, one or two boxes (Character limits ), and convert them into a sequence of text boxes to fill a page! I’m essentially recreating column formatting from Word, and I’m aware there’s an add-in for Revit that allows you to directly link Word Documents into a Revit Project. However, I think chasing this will give me a great reason to dive into programming, even if it ends up getting complex. At the least I’ve learned something.
I’m going to be taking a look at some documents covering Dynamo and get into the groove of things, but any experience or tips is greatly welcomed! I need it! Thanks!
Basically, the goal is to have text that keeps the format after removing sections here throughout setting up notes and specs. A key schedule would sorta work but I think we’re just trying to find a solution that requires as little time put into editing and shifting around text. The text is going to have italics, bold, etc, and that would require a heading cell in the Schedule, so every section is then broken down into a heading and the body. It could certainly work, but be more time consuming and a pain to format in the key schedule view than something automated.
Definitely an option though! But then I wouldn’t get to dive into Dynamo nearly as much!
My Revit experience has been mostly locked up in the modeling side, not much on sheets and managing text, so I figured there’s some things I’d find out to work around how bad the text notes are. I’ll give labels a shot as well, I think I’ve got a general process outlined for how I want the script to work, I just need to dig into Dynamo nodes and see how to get it going
), and convert them into a sequence of text boxes to fill a page! I’m essentially recreating column formatting from Word, and I’m aware there’s an add-in for Revit that allows you to directly link Word Documents into a Revit Project. However, I think chasing this will give me a great reason to dive into programming, even if it ends up getting complex. At the least I’ve learned something.