Discover the process of creating a general notes sheet in Revit Structure, including how to import notes from a master note sheet. You'll also learn how to properly arrange your notes based on your design team's preferences.
Key Insights
- The article walks through the steps to create a new general notes sheet in Revit Structure, starting with creating a new sheet and renaming it.
- It highlights how to import notes from a pre-existing master note sheet, select the desired views, and download them into the project.
- Guidance is given on arranging the notes within the project, emphasizing the importance of consulting with the Building Information Modeling (BIM) manager, design engineer, or project leader to ensure proper placement.
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Hello and welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've finished detailing our project, let's move on to finishing up a General Notes sheet and picking up some schedules in another video. Then we'll wrap up with some final document reviews.
Let's get started. Okay, the first thing we're going to do is create a new sheet that we'll call General Notes. So let's go to Sheets.
Let's right-click, New Sheet. We see we have our border. Hit OK. Here we have our new drawing sheet.
We're going to rename it. Let's right-click on the name, go to Rename. Let's give it Sheet Number S1.1 and call it General Notes.
Okay, what we're going to do now is insert notes from a master note sheet that we've downloaded previously. So let's go to the Insert tab. Let's go to the Import panel and select Insert from File.
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This allows us to insert views from other projects such as our master note file. Let's pick it. We want to insert views from files.
Let's go to our C: drive where we've downloaded our information, and here we have our master note sheet. Let's pick it. Let's open it.
What you see here is a list of views included in this sheet, and you'll notice we have all of our general notes. What we've done is placed our notes in Drafting Views. We can check all, then uncheck the S1 sheet view since we don’t want a sheet within a sheet. We’ll now import our notes into the project. Let's hit OK.
This gives us a dialog box of duplicate types. That’s okay—just hit OK. And here we have them loaded. It will show you a graphic preview of one of the notes.
Let's close that. Okay, what's happened now is that in our Project Browser we have a file or view called General Notes and Design. Let's pick that—here it's loaded our notes.
What we want to do now is drag our notes into our project sheet. Let’s begin with the first one: General Notes. Notice it gives us a bounding box.
Let’s drag this over. The next one will be Foundation Notes. The order is usually based on what your design team feels looks right for the project. So always check with your BIM Manager, Design Engineer, or Project Leader to make sure you're bringing them in correctly. Let's go ahead with Steel Notes.
Okay, let’s get that into position. You’ll notice we always have alignment lines. Now, since we’re in steel, let’s go to our Decking Notes.
Let’s line them up as best we can. Let’s move on. We've placed our Decking Notes and Foundation Notes.
Okay, let's go to Steel Frames. Let’s place that. Let’s move on.
We've got our General and Steel Notes in. Let’s go to our Wood Notes. First note here, and last note there.
Okay, let's finish placing the callout locations. Let's zoom in and take a look. We have our General Notes that we had already pre-designed, and they look pretty good.
And there you have it—a General Notes sheet, done that quickly. That’s why setting up prototypes and information that will be repeated—setting it up prior to the project—allows us to import and place information very efficiently in our project.
Let’s zoom out. Let’s save our project. That’s it for this video.
See you in the next one.