Comprehensive Guide to Documenting Building Plans with BIM 303 PDF Markups

Creating Detailed Annotations and Markups for Floor Plans, Elevations, and Section Views in BIM 303 PDF Files

Discover the process of transitioning to the BIM 303 PDF markup file, focusing on floor plan markups and different sets of notes for our elevations. Learn how to add keynotes, door tags, dimensions, and other annotations in a manner that meets office standards and ensures consistency within the documentation.

Key Insights

  • The BIM 303 PDF markup file provides a comprehensive set of markups for floor plans, including red lines, partition schedules, dimensions, and notes.
  • Annotations such as keynotes and door tags are crucial to ensuring that the documentation meets office standards and remains consistent across different levels and plans.
  • Besides floor plan markups, the file also includes notes for elevations, material legends, and section views, which help in documenting the building accurately while maintaining the consistency of the building envelope.

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Now we're going to transition to that file that I provided called the BIM 303 PDF markup. And in here we've got a few sets of markups and there are really two groups that we're going to focus on. One is going to be the floor plan markups.

You can see there's a whole bunch of different red lines on here that we're going to go ahead and address, including adding a partition schedule and then making sure we get a lot of different dimensions and notes and things on here. So there's everything from adding keynotes, door tags, dimensioning in a certain way, or just making sure that we are annotating in a way that we find acceptable or that meets an office standard. And you'll see the same thing on level two and the roof plan.

And then we also have a handful of different notes on here that are going to be used for our elevations, including some enlarged plans that we're going to want to do, making sure that we copy notes over from one page to the next, a material legend, and then we have some notes on our section views as well. So there are items like adding a wall section here, making sure we're being consistent with our style of documentation such as having room tags in place, and then also having the appropriate sheets created for these views, which we did in one of the earlier videos. We also want to make sure we're documenting this correctly and showing that the building envelope is consistent in different areas.

And again, wall sections, room tags, etc. And so the next few videos through this lesson here are going to involve going through this markup, getting all of this content on there. So as you may have guessed, this course is going to be very documentation heavy, because that is the next step in the project.

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So in BIM 302, we spent a lot of time modeling the building. In BIM 303 here, we're going to spend a lot of time documenting the building.

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Michael Wilson

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Bachelor of Architecture, Registered Architect

Mike is recognized by Autodesk as one of North America’s leading Revit Certified Instructors. He has significant experience integrating Revit, 3ds Max, and Rhino and uses Revit Architecture on medium and large-scale bio and nano-tech projects. Mike has been an integral member of the VDCI team for over 15 years, offering his hard-charging, “get it done right” approach and close attention to detail. In his spare time, Mike enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife, children, and dog.

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