Master the art of efficiently assigning material notes to designs using previous elevations, as explored in this article. Learn how to effectively manage changes in the keynote type and material type, and understand the benefits and drawbacks of using user keynotes and element keynotes in your designs.
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- The article discusses the process of quickly assigning material notes to the design’s south side elevation using details from previous elevations, saving significant time and effort.
- Changes in the walls' material type or keynote type can either result in a blank space if there is no associated tag or automatically update to the appropriate tag, providing a highly efficient solution for design alterations.
- The piece explores the use of user keynotes and element keynotes, highlighting the potential challenges of using element keynotes, particularly within larger teams or projects that lack clear communication on keynote goals.
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Now we are on our last elevation here. So let's go ahead and hop into the south side and we can start by adding some of our material notes. And as you have noticed, this is gonna go pretty quickly because these are already all designated.
We don't have to worry about trying to add these in after the fact because the materials that we're placing have already been noted based upon the previous elevations that we've been working on. So this goes pretty quickly after you've got that set up and it's kind of nice because you can go through and get these applied quickly. So here we've got this one set to the same material, which is that PC2.
And so I'm gonna take a look at that real quick because I think we wanted that one to be a different material, which was gonna be PC1. If I just change the material here from our wall type properties and go through, and I forgot to check the tag, you can see it's set to PC1. This tag is currently PC2, but if I change the tag or change the material, then everything should go through and change to PC1.
Now, the fact that I did do that here in the South view just tells me I need to jump into 3D view and make sure that we have the right material set and the right wall type set for this guy here because if we don't, then that would be pretty strange to have an outside corner change like that. So it looks like we're good. But that's one of the things with assigning these, the appropriate material type and the keynote type is if you do make changes, then it'll either show up as blank if there's not a tag associated with it, or it'll update itself to the appropriate tag, which is awesome.
Okay, so I'm just gonna go through and do a lot of the same stuff we've done on the other views. This is a wide open space below, so I wanna make sure that we're noting that properly and just using, again, that overhead line with the beyond text in there to make sure that this looks the way that we're hoping it to look. And then adding the combination of user keynotes, element keynotes, and material keynotes to make sure that we have these things called out correctly.
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So calling out the column wrap, we can note here, this is, again, a user keynote, so I can use the elevation keynote to call that out as a storefront wall. And then I can call out the different mullions, again, using the user keynote. Or, again, that was one we used the element keynote for, but remember, we talked about the dangers of using an element keynote, because you can see here, it's trying to find it, but it's having a really hard time.
And you can see it grabs it at about that point, which isn't super intuitive. And so just something that I've learned over the years, element keynotes are great in concept, but if you have a larger team that maybe isn't or hasn't worked on a project together before, or you haven't clearly communicated the goals of how you're gonna be doing the keynoting, then you might wanna just stick to user keynotes. Not saying that element keynotes won't work, just saying that they do come with their own surprises as you go through, and you will certainly discover that on a project at least once.
Okay, so that's just a handful of notes that I've added. And then I'll add one more here, since this is the Skylight portion, and we could do the storefront door one. If you notice, it wouldn't show me that connection between those two when I was zoomed in there, because it didn't know it was there, but when I zoomed out, it gave me the ability to connect the two of those, and so I'll go ahead and add that storefront door note to this guy here.
And you may have noticed this list has gotten substantially longer, because we do have a lot of our Elevation keynotes noted here. A couple of them haven't been tagged, because they're just not applicable to this view, but we will get to those in a later video here. So the trick is gonna be to make sure you're keeping track of how these things are oriented on the sheet.
So just because this was set up the way that we had it initially in the starting file doesn't mean that that's the way it's gonna stay. So it's like some things, it's just a little nicer if we can tidy it up a bit. So keep those things in mind as you're going through the project.
So that's gonna do it for our Elevation keynotes. The next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna jump into that enlarged Elevation sheet, and then we're gonna go ahead and work on the annotating that we need to do here, which is gonna include both keynotes and dimensions.
