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 and then we'll wrap up with some final document reviews.
Let's get started. Okay, first thing we're going to do is we're going to create a new sheet that we're going to call general notes. So let's go to sheets.
Let's right click, new sheet. We see we have our border. Is it okay? 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 let's call it general notes.
Okay, what we're going to do is we're going to 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 we're going to go to insert from file.
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It allows us to insert views from other projects such as our master note file. Let's pick it. We want to insert view from files.
Let's go to our C drive where we've downloaded our information to 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 we have in this sheet and you notice we have all of our general notes. What we've done is we've placed our notes in drafting views and we can check all and uncheck the S1 because we don't want a sheet within a sheet and we will download our notes into our project. Let's hit okay.
And this gives us a dialog box of duplicate types. That's okay. Just hit okay and here we have them loaded and it'll give you a graphic of one of the notes.
Let's close that. Okay what's happened is now in our project browser we now have a file or a view called general notes and design. Let's pick that and here it's loaded in our notes.
What we want to do now is drag our notes into our project. Let's go with the first one, general notes. Notice it gives us a box.
Let's drag this over and the next thing we'll go with our foundation notes and the order usually is based on what your design team feels looks right for them. So always check with your BIM manager or your design engineer or the project leader to make sure that you're bringing them in properly. Let's go here with steel notes.
Okay let's get that into position. You'll notice we always have alignment lines. Now let's go to our, 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 note, our foundation notes.
Okay let's go to steel frames. Let's place that. Let's move on.
Okay we've got our general and steel notes in. Let's go to our wood notes. First note here and our last note here.
Okay let's finish out the locations of the call-outs. Okay 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 note sheet. Done that quickly. That's why setting up prototypes and information that will be repeated, setting it up previous to the project allows us to import and place information very quickly in our project.
Let's zoom out. Let's save our project. That's it for this video.
See you in the next one.