Chapter 11 • Schedules and Tags 574 13. Pick the stair landing’s surface. 14. Place the keynote as shown in Figure 11.98. FIGURE 11.98 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 . Keynoting 575 WARNING 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). FIGURE 11.99 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. Chapter 11 • Schedules and Tags 576 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. FIGURE 11.100 Picking the stairs to place the keynote FIGURE 11.101 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 Keynoting 577 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). FIGURE 11.102 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! Chapter 11 • Schedules and Tags 578 FIGURE 11.103 Keynoting Settings displays where the keynotes are configured. Are You Experienced? Now you can… create several different types of schedules add custom fields to the schedules that calculate values create material takeoffs that give you up-to-the-second information as you add items to the model Are You Experienced? 579 create legends by using a blank view and basically drafting items into the model import AutoCAD-generated data to create a legend that looks exactly like your CAD create drawing sheets, add a schedule, and manipulate a schedule to fit on the sheet add tags to the model in addition to the tags that were automatically added when you placed the components place tags that “reach into” a component and display different materials create custom tags to display any information CHAPTER 12 Detailing 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 Chapter 12 • Detailing 582 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. FIGURE 12.1 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. Working with Line Weights 583 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). FIGURE 12.2 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). . 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 keynote as shown in Figure 11.98. FIGURE 11.98 Placing the material keynote Now that you have experience adding a keynote value to material, it is time to buckle down and assign keynotes. Keynote list. 1. Save your model, and close out of Revit Architecture completely. 2. Using a text editor, open the file C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication Data Autodesk RAC 2011 Imperial