# Replacing Spot Elevations with Families

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/replacing-spot-elevations-with-families/2993>\
**Category:** Packages\
**Created:** [January 21, 2016, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/replacing-spot-elevations-with-families/2993 "2016-01-21T09:40:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Hurtubise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/daniel_hurtubise/32/146534_2.png) [@Daniel\_Hurtubise](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Daniel_Hurtubise)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/replacing-spot-elevations-with-families/2993/1 "2016-01-21T09:40:23Z")

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For a lovely project, don’t ask i’m ashamed ;), we need to use a different offset from Sea Level so I cannot use Shared Coordinates, not even temporarely.

So my idea is to create fake… everything. Basically Levels and Spot Elevation.

So for Levels it was easy as I was just reading a parameter value, adding the offset and pushing that back in a fake family.

For Spot Elevation it’s a different story since the value is not store in a parameter. So my idea is to use the (Single/Upper Value) and add the offset. Write that to a parameter… but they don’t have parameter. So the idea is to simply replace them with a new fake family.

So far i’m able to get the value, get the location but I cannot find a way to place an annotation symbol to some specific views. I will be “replacing” them on a set series of Floor Plan.

I’ve attached the definition

Fake Elevation

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Hurtubise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/daniel_hurtubise/32/146534_2.png) [@Daniel\_Hurtubise](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Daniel_Hurtubise)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/replacing-spot-elevations-with-families/2993/2 "2016-02-16T01:28:49Z")

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I’ve been able to replace them with a Generic Model Family but i would rather use a Generic Annotation. I’m guessing i have to find all the views where i have Spot Elevations first but i cannot find that “property”.

Any help is again much appreciated 🙂

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