Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 No Experience Required - part 61 docx

To begin, we will physically open the keynote text file and add some custom notes.. In the Keynotes dialog box, your new keynote will be at the top of the list, as shown in Figure 11.10

13 Pick the stair landing’s surface.

14 Place the keynote as shown in Figure 11.98.

F i g u R e 1 1 9 8 Placing the material keynote

Now that you have experience adding a keynote value to material, it is time

to buckle down and assign keynotes to all of your materials It is also important

to note that, as your firm develops more materials, you need to be diligent in adding keynotes to the new materials as they are created

The next style of keynoting allows you to specify an alternate keynote to an element To begin, we will physically open the keynote text file and add some custom notes

keynoting by user

There will be times when you need a completely custom keynote Although you should try to stick to the CSI formatting, there will always be reasons to add your own To do so, the first thing we need to look at is how to customize the Keynote list

1 Save your model, and close out of Revit Architecture completely.

2 Using a text editor, open the file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\RAC 2011\Imperial Library\ RevitKeynotes_Imperial_2004.txt

W A R N I N G Before you start typing anything, you need to know

that, when you need a separator between texts, you must press the tab key

If not, the code won’t work also, before you do this, be sure to make a copy

of the original file

3 Scroll down the list until you find the note: 06 43 00.B1→3/4” Plywood

Treads And Risers→06 43 00

4 Click in the end of the note, press Enter to start a new line, and

add the row 06 43 00.B2→Custom Hardwood Stairs→06 43 00 (see

Figure 11.99)

F i g u R e 1 1 9 9 Adding the row 06 43 00.B2→Custom Hardwood

Stairs→06 43 00

5 Save the file.

6 Open Revit Architecture.

7 Open your project file.

8 In the Project Browser, go to Level 1 floor plan.

9 On the Tag panel of the Annotate tab, click Keynote ➢ User Keynote

10 Pick the stairs, as shown in Figure 11.100.

11 In the Keynotes dialog box, your new keynote will be at the top of the

list, as shown in Figure 11.101

12 Pick the new keynote.

13 Click OK.

The stairs now have a custom keynote

Now that we have every kind of tag imaginable placed in our model, we need

to create one more legend to close the chapter: a keynote legend

F i g u R e 1 1 1 0 0 Picking the stairs to place the keynote

F i g u R e 1 1 1 0 1 The new keynote

creating keynote Legends

Creating keynote legends is similar to creating schedules Sometimes there is

a fine line between what a schedule is and what a legend is Keynotes seem to

almost fall between these two concepts Either way, follow this procedure to

cre-ate a keynote legend:

1 On the View tab, click Legends ➢ Keynote Legend

2 The name Keynote Legend is fine, so click OK at the dialog that appears.

3 In the Keynote Legend Properties dialog, only two fields are available,

and they are both added to the legend All you need to do is click OK,

and the legend has been created (see Figure 11.102)

F i g u R e 1 1 1 0 2 The new keynote legend

Well, that was easy! As mentioned before, if the data is there, it is not hard to

create a query such as this to display the information

One more item to address is where Revit looks for information regarding

key-notes: in the Settings listings

keynote settings

To find the keynote settings, follow this procedure:

On the Tag panel of the Annotate tab, click the drop-down arrow on the

bot-tom of the panel This will allow you to click the Keynoting Settings button, as

shown in Figure 11.103

Although we are not going to change anything, it is noteworthy that the

default path is by library location This is desired, because when you upgrade

Revit and you have a custom keynote file, you can move it to the same directory,

and Revit will read it into the model

By specifying by project, you will have only one keynote legend If you specify

by sheet, you can then drag the legend onto multiple sheets and only the

key-notes that are visible on that specific sheet will be included in the legend We

will cover this process in further detail in Chapter 14

As you can now see, there are many items that can be tagged, keynoted, and

scheduled If you feel as though you could use more practice, go ahead and

cre-ate some more schedules, tags, and keynotes!

F i g u R e 1 1 1 0 3 Keynoting Settings displays where the keynotes are configured.

Are You experienced?

Now you can…

create several different types of schedules E

E add custom fields to the schedules that calculate values E

E create material takeoffs that give you up-to-the-second information E

E

as you add items to the model

create legends by using a blank view and basically drafting items into

E

E

the model

import autoCaD-generated data to create a legend that looks exactly

E

E

like your CaD

create drawing sheets, add a schedule, and manipulate a schedule to

E

E

fit on the sheet

add tags to the model in addition to the tags that were automatically

E

E

added when you placed the components

place tags that “reach into” a component and display different

E

E

materials

create custom tags to display any information

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E

Simply put, if detailing does not work, then you will use Revit only as a schematic design application It is imperative that you can detail in Revit effi-ciently When firms fail in the attempt to use Revit, it is because of detailing

In fact, many of you who have bought this book may jump straight to this chapter And why is that? It is because many people (this author included) buy into the concept of really cool 3D perspectives and one-button modeling Working with line weights





Drafting on top of the detail





adding notes





Creating blank drafting views





Working with Line Weights

Once we understand Revit, we find out immediately that the real hurdle in get-ting it to work lies in the detailing Sure, you can cut sections and create call-outs, but how do you add that fine level of detailing needed to produce a set of documents that you are willing to stamp and sign? This chapter addresses the issues surrounding detailing

The first thing that comes to mind when dealing with CAD standards is line weights, right? In AutoCAD it’s layers, in MicroStation it’s levels, but on paper it

is line weights that control 75 percent of our company’s standards As you will learn in this chapter, Revit can be a good 2D drafting application as well As we learn how to control our line weights in the 3D elements, we can also control line weights, well, line by line

To begin, open the file you have been following along with If you did not

complete the previous chapter, go to the book’s web page at www.sybex.com/go/

revit2011ner From there you can browse to Chapter 12 and find the file called

NER-29.rvt The objective of this procedure is to format the line weights and to see where, and how, they are read by Revit

1 In the Project Browser, open the section called Roof Taper Section.

2 Notice the perimeter of the walls and the roof are extremely heavy in

contrast to the finer lines that divide the submaterials This is what we will change On the Settings panel of the Manage tab, click the Object Styles button to the left of the Ribbon, as shown in Figure 12.1

F i g u R e 1 2 1 Object Styles is located to the left of the Manage tab.

3 In the Object Styles dialog, you will see a list of every object category

available in Revit The first items we want to change are the roofs In the category column, scroll down until you see Roofs, as shown in Figure 12.2

Glancing up at the headers that describe the columns, you will see

the Line Weight column This column is divided into two sections:

Projection and Cut The Projection column controls the line weights of

objects as they are viewed in plan or elevation The Cut column controls

the line weights as they are shown in section So, to reiterate, projection

means plan and elevation, and cut means section Our objective is to

modify the line weight for both the cut and the projection of the floor

4 In the Roofs row, change the Cut value to 3, as shown in Figure 12.2.

5 Click the plus sign next to Roofs to expand the category.

6 Notice all of the subelements are shown, and you can control the line

weights accordingly Change the Cut value of Fascias to 3

7 Change the Cut value for Gutters to 3.

8 Change the Cut value for Roof Soffits to 3 (again, see Figure 12.2).

F i g u R e 1 2 2 Changing the object line weights

9 Find Floors, and change Cut Line Weight to 3.

10 Find Walls, and change Cut Line Weight to 3.

11 Click OK and you will see the change to your outline (see Figure 12.3).