Dive into the intricacies of Revit Structure in this detailed walk-through of annotating a multi-level building. Learn techniques for tagging beams, managing annotations, and properly annotating various parts of the building structure.
Key Insights
- The article provides an in-depth guide on how to annotate a building structure using Revit Structure. This includes annotating beams, girders, and brace or moment frames.
- The author demonstrates how to use certain features in Revit Structure for efficient annotation, such as using the 'hide and view' option to clear the annotation field or using the annotate tab and symbol panel to pick the beam system symbol for annotation.
- Aside from beam systems, the guide also covers the annotation of other structural elements such as the plywood subfloor and double joists. The author suggests checking with the BIM manager to ensure office annotation standards are met.
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Hello, welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've finished annotating our second floor, let's zoom in and see what we've done.
Very good. We've annotated our beams and our girders, but we've not annotated our braces or moment frames. As we said in a previous video, we'll pick that up in a later video.
Let's move on. Let's zoom out. Let's look at our third level.
Level 3. Okay, as you notice, we have a lot of framing here and it's going to get in the way of our annotations. So, the first thing we want to do is grab as many of those as we can and hide them. The way we do this is to create a window, pick these elements, right-click, and go to Hide in View*.
It's going to hide these elements. Very good. We can now see we have a clear field to place our annotations.
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But if we look in the 3D model, let's scroll it, we still have all of our framing. Let's get out of our 3D view. Let's go back to our plan.
Okay, the first thing we want to do is go to the Annotate tab. We want to go to the Symbol panel. We want to pick the Beam System Symbol*.
Let's pick that. Okay, when we return to our plan, you'll see it identifies our beam system. Let's pick that and you'll see it provides a tag.
Let's place it. Let's zoom in on it. 2x12 at 16" on center, which is what we placed, so this is the correct tag.
Let's move on. Let's finish tagging or annotating the rest of our systems. Okay, let's escape out of that.
Let's grab another window full of framing. Right-click on it. Hide.
*Hide Elements*. Let's do the same thing here. It doesn't matter how many elements you hide, as long as you have a clear field to place your annotation.
*Hide Elements*. Again. Let's pick this last area.
Be careful in this area because we have some joists that we need to identify. Let's pick this. Let's hide our elements.
And let's continue tagging our beam systems. Again, we're in the Annotate tab. Symbol panel.
*Beam System Symbol*. Let's pick that. Let's continue.
Okay, and as you notice, when we move this, it gives us a lock or a parallel line that will align the symbols. Let's continue. Very good.
Let's continue. Okay, now you see this one—we have all of the joists running end to end. We'll pick this and move it down from our stair.
That gives us a clear identification of all the framing in this area. Let's do it again here. Here.
Here. And here. Okay, now we have smaller areas we can pick.
It may be a little cramped, but you’ll notice the text is opaque and will hide the elements behind it, which is okay. It still gives us what we need.
So let's continue and finish. Very good. Okay, now that we've added notations and annotated our beam systems, let's go back to tagging beams.
Let's escape out of this command. Let's go back to Tag*. What we want to do is tag our beams.
So let's check our Tags*. The parameter we want is for Structural Framing*. We want the Framing Tag Standard*.
That's what we have. Click OK*. Let's get started.
Now when we tag this beam, it tells us we have a 6¾x18-inch glulam beam. This is a typical notation. Let's continue.
Very good. Again, we won't annotate our moment frames or our brace frames because we will do that in a later video. Let's continue.
Let's finish this floor. Very good. We have our frame here.
We're not going to annotate that. We'll return to our typical floor framing. Okay.
Let's work around our moment frame beams and our beam framing and finish tagging this. Very good. Remember the beam that we pushed out to set our stairs?
Very good. Okay, there we have it. We've annotated all of our floor framing on this floor.
Now what we want to do is place a notation on our plywood subfloor sheathing. Okay. Since we don't have a tag for it, we're going to use standard annotation.
We'll hit No because we don’t want to load one. Press Escape*, then go to Annotate again.
Go to Text in the Text panel. Let's pick that. And again, we look at our options—our parameters, as we say—for our text.
We want a two-segment leader. We want everything justified top and to the left. Let's get started.
We will pick a line here. Set it here. Here.
And we'll place: ¾-inch plywood sheathing*. Very good. Okay, the last area—let’s escape out of that—that we need to annotate is these double joists we have right here,
Because they aren't part of our typical framing. And these double joists here. The way we're going to do that is, again, go to Text*.
Press Escape*. Let's place our text properly. Go here.
Here. And here. And we'll say: Double 2x12 joists.*
Okay. Now we have a few areas where we have the 2x10 joists. So let's escape out of this command. Now let's pick the text.
As you can see in our toolbar, in the Format panel, we have other options. We can fully delete the arrows or we can add arrows.
Since we have four arrows to note, we're going to add three more. Click it three times. Let’s grab the bubble,
And align it to the areas where we have the double joists. Very good. Again, we have a double joist here.
So let’s again go to our Text*. All the parameters are set. Let’s go here.
Here. Enter: Double 2x12 joists.*
Very good. Typically, this is how it's done.
But in your office, you may have different standards. So check with your BIM Manager first and see how they would annotate it.
Let’s go up here and see what we have. We're all set. As you can see, we have a few stray beams we need to tag.
So let's finish those. Here. Here.
Here. And here. Very good.
We’ve finished the third floor. So go ahead and finish the fourth and fifth levels. That's it for this video.
We'll see you in the next one. Let's zoom out.