Managing Graphics and Annotations in Revit: A Comprehensive Guide

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So by far our main offender on graphics has been our A201 sheet which showed these elevation tags and what we can do is with our elevations you have the option to be able to hide them at scales coarser than so you can see this one's hide at scales coarser than one inch equals 400 feet and so if I were to bring that down to what I call reality I can go ahead and say hide them at scales coarser than 3 16ths because then I've got them still showing here in my quarter inch plan but they won't show up on our eighth inch plan so if I select these elevations then I can have it do that so I can go in and I could pick these elevations and we'll set that again that setting where it's high at scales coarser than and I just like to use that 3 16ths because it's between a quarter and eighth and I know that it'll still show here and so if I do that for all eight of our elevation views like this then we can pop over to our A201 plan and you can see that those are no longer showing up in that view and so that's an awesome thing to have it really does help us out because it's just not many clutter and things that you can't even see anyway so the next thing that I wanted to do before we printed is I wanted to make sure that we were properly showing our wall tags and wall types in the plan so they correspond back to our partition schedule so our rated or non-rated full height partition which is the walls that we have that are this one here and the ones that like around the restrooms these ones are going to be the wall type A and so when I go into my edit type you can see that we have this option for type mark and so if I set that to A and hit okay there type mark is going to be A another thing you can do which is pretty helpful sometimes you can rename this partition to have it be A and then like an underscore so that you can see here that in the type name it's going to be wall type A corresponding with the type mark and then if I were to go to my annotate tab and do tag by category when I tag my wall you can see that it's now going to be wall type A I'm going to use the smaller wall tag the quarter inch one because it just looks better but now that we've got all these things corresponding we can go ahead and do the same thing so it's like wall type B would be my one hour rated one and so I can kind of do the same thing where I place this one adding the tag first this time and then making this a B it's a type parameter so it's going to change all the elements right but what I can do now is I can make that same modification and rename the type to be wall type B in here and what's great is now like at the top of my list you know I've got A B and it's easy to find these things okay and I hit escape instead of actually doing it here but now I've got B and we'll do the same thing for wall types C and D here so we've got our shaft wall which is the wall around our elevator and if I pick that wall and do the same thing edit type rename wall type C you can see the type mark became C because it was already there and then the same thing for the plumbing wall so I can do tag by category pick the plumbing wall change it to D and rename it and so now we've got walls A through D set up here and I'll just move that down a little bit because again it's not where I want it to be and then for these I like to put the tick mark so if I select this guy I can go edit type and then the leader arrowhead we can put on here is the heavy end eighth inch and that just puts a little dashed end on here and so what I'll do is I'll just kind of clean this up a little bit and then I'm gonna go through and add some tags so again I just go to annotate tag by category and since everything's already all set up it's pretty straightforward I can just add the tags for the walls that we have not yet noted both on level 1 and level 2 kind of like you see here avoiding things like that right because then you can't see the B and then I'll pop over to a 202 and add the same tags here so getting tagged by category it would be tempting to do this tag all but I think it'd be pretty messy and so you might think you're saving some time by doing something like that but ultimately it's probably just gonna end up spending you're gonna end up spending just as much if not more time trying to keep it clean and tidy because you're gonna end up with a whole bunch of wall tags everywhere all right and so just a couple more here go ahead and tag a few around the stair leading by example for yes there and then I'll put one here for the lobby okay and so those are the changes or revisions that I wanted to make right before we print and so now when we go to print what we're gonna do is we're gonna use the export to PDF option which will allow us to unless you have like Bluebeam or another PDF printing software this will allow us to print a PDF package for our midterm and so my file name is gonna be been through a three which is our course your first and last name and then I'll put midterm at the end of that and we want to go ahead and select the sheets that we want to print and so if I click this edit right here I can pop into all of our sheets and you can kind of filter this out a little bit to only include the sheets since right now it's showing all the views we definitely don't want that we just want the sheets and so I can go ahead and check all of these here and uncheck the 3D views because those are not the ones that we want to print and then you can see it's saying edit print order so for some reason these were not printing in order we can go ahead and make that revision and change the print order but print order looks good so we can go ahead and say select to print those sheets there and then we can pick our saving location and in this case I'll save it in my working folder and then we'll pick our sheet size so this is gonna be the arch e1 and we do not want to do this we want to make sure we say zoom so that it's gonna zoom to 100% make sure it's centered and everything else looks pretty good here the last thing I would always want to do is make sure we have that hide on reference view tags checked and once we're good to go we can hit export I don't need to save these because we only changed a couple things and it's pretty straightforward okay so mine has printed and I'm gonna go ahead and navigate to that folder location where I saved it and just gonna open it up to double check that it looks good here and so now I can see that I've got my sheets the revisions that we discussed all look to be correct because we double check them and then the nice thing about that export is that it does give me a full packaged PDF so now we've got a set of drawings that is 14 sheets and we're gonna be adding to that and creating much more as we progress through the class so this will be what we submit for midterm and then when we start back up in the next lesson we're gonna be taking a look at some other things