Discover the inner workings of keynotes and their application in annotating detail views. This article delves into keynote settings, functioning, and methods of referencing your keynote text files in a comprehensive manner.
Key Insights
- Keynotes offer an alternative to text for annotating details, utilizing a predefined list of notes organized in a keyed list, which can be used even without employing the keys.
- A variety of path types can be used to reference your keynote text files, including absolute, relative, or at library locations. The recommended method is Relative, especially when the keynote file is in the same location as the project file.
- The numbering method in keynote settings can either be set to 'by keynote', which uses the number defined in the text file, or 'by sheet', which uses a sequential number relative to each sheet in your document. Note that only one of these methods can be used in a project.
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In the next few videos, we're going to review keynotes as it applies to annotating detail views. In this video, we're going to look at keynote settings. An alternative to using text to annotate your details, you can use keynotes to streamline the process.
Keynoting allows you to annotate your details and other views using a predefined list of notes. The notes are organized in a keyed list, which is why they're referred to as keynotes. However, it is not required that you actually utilize the keys in order to use the keynote functionality.
Now let's go to the Annotate tab in the ribbon. And in the Tag panel, let's select this bottom button and select Keynoting Settings. The keynote list is stored in a simple tab delimited text file, which you can see the full path here.
And the one we're referring to now is BIM 302 Keynotes underscore complete. Let's click the Browse button and let's go ahead and reference the BIM 303 file you've downloaded. The text file is called BIM 303 Keynotes.
Select that and click Open. There are three possible path types that you can use to reference your keynote text file. It can either be absolute, relative, or at library locations.
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For absolute, this writes the complete path back to the drive letter. Relative assumes that the keynote file is located in the same location as the project file, and therefore only writes the path relative to the location in which the project is saved. I'd recommend using this one and keeping your keynote files with your project files.
And the last option, At Library Locations, writes the path relative to the locations defined in the Files Location tab of Options dialog. This is in the Application menu. Click the File Locations tab and then click the Places button to see and edit the library locations.
The other option here is the numbering method. You can either do your numbering by keynote or by sheet. If you set it to by keynote, this is the number that's defined in the text file.
If you set it to by sheet, this is a sequential number relative to each sheet in your document. And this is the way we've used it in BIM 302. Let's keep this set to by sheet.
Note that you can only use one of these numbering in your project. If you wanted to reference the keynotes in your text file, it's going to reference the keynotes throughout the entire project. If you set it to by sheet, it's always going to be relative to the sheet.
Let's click OK and finish setting our keynotes. In the next video, we're going to look at keynote tags and types in our enlarged elevation.