Discover the effective management of Revit Projects through the use of DWF markup modifications and comparisons. Learn the value of keeping a digital record of the markups, contributing to a more efficient and organized project workflow.
Key Insights
- Revit Project Management with DWF markup modifications is an efficient method for tracking changes and conducting comparisons between old and revised versions.
- Keeping a digital record of the markups eliminates the need for physical paper stacks, thus promoting a more organized and streamlined workflow.
- Once the DWF markups have been completed, they can be removed from the project. This ensures that only current and relevant information is actively displayed, maintaining a clean and clear workspace.
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Hello and welcome to the Cat Teacher VDCI video series for Revit Project Management. We've just modified our DWF markup to read for review and also designate it with a question and then we've saved it back to that file. So what we need to do is we need to export this individual sheet so we have something to compare the old version to with the revised version.
We'll go to our application menu, export, DWF. And this time we want to make sure we just export the current view slash sheet only. So everything looks good here.
Our print setting should be the same so we should be alright there. And we'll go ahead and click next. And I want to call it what it is, ARCH A1.1. So just the sheet so it's kind of the same file number because this is really just a temporary file that we're going to use for right now.
So I'm going to go ahead and hit okay. And if you already had it, go ahead and overwrite of course. Okay, so now I'm going to go back into design review.
And I'm going to open up that markup file that we were working on. Okay, I want to navigate to my list view. And then I'm going to open up the A1.1 first floor plan.
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So you can see right away when we look at it that we can see alright, something has happened here. So I can see here that the furring was probably added to the column and maybe this was resolved. And then I can see right away that there's a difference between the furring to the column.
We can make a change there. So I need to select these. By default we're on the pan tool so it's not like it's a combination of pan and something else.
We need to go to the select tool. And it is the smallest button right here which is select. Or we can learn the keyboard shortcut which is A. So you can see when I select the purple ones, you can see they're set for review.
Okay, and it tells you who changed it right here and who created it. In this case it was the same person. And we can see here the one that we set up as a question.
We can see in our history somebody asked the question what type of furring, etc. Okay, and so then we can go ahead and add it. We'll say metal stud and then with metal panel.
Okay, and so that will be the furring that we're asking this person to add to it. And now what we want to do is we want to make sure that these changes have been updated. We'll look for a change to those.
And what we can do is from our tools tab. We were in markup and measure here. Now we're going to go to tools.
We have compare sheets. So I can compare this sheet with one from a more recent file. If I click compare sheets, I need to select the file.
So I'll browse to the A1.1 that we created. So export DWF BIM 1.1. Click open. And it's giving me an error here.
And that's because we're having duplicate markups over the top of each other. So that's okay. So I'm going to hit okay here.
And you can see there's one sheet for us to work with. Looks good. So I'll select that one and hit okay.
And what it's going to do is it's going to overlay the new one in green. And anything that's changed on the old one is going to be in red. So our section tags and elevation tags are in red because the DWF that we just imported didn't include those views.
We can ignore that. That's not that big of a deal. But we can see that this tag has moved.
So the green is the new view. So that tag's moved and it's in an acceptable position. And then also the firring has been added to this column here.
So I can select those markups. Adjust room tag. Set a full review.
It's now done. And I can change that as well on this one. Okay.
And so now I can go ahead and save that markup. Okay. Go back to our Revit project.
And I can reload that markup. If I go to my manage links, I can go to my DWF markups. Okay.
And I can reload it and hit okay. And it's going to show me all the overview here. But I can now see that the status markup is done on this one and this one as well.
And then I can also identify and see the notes. If I look at the notes or the history here, I can see that the response was made for metal stud with metal paneling. And we can go ahead and make those changes and kind of have that back and forth between the two.
So markups don't need to be a constant part of the drawing. So this one's kind of been done and over with. But it's great because we can keep a record of the markups that we've done digitally instead of having that giant stack of paper on your desk.
So I can go to my manage links, DWF. And I can actually remove the link because now these markups have been completed. So I can click remove.
Hit okay. And now my sheet is back to the way it was. So as usual, any time we finish anything, we should save to central.
