Dive into the detailed process of annotating a project in Revit Structure and provide a contractor with the necessary information to build from. Learn how to detail foundations, assign dimensions, add notations, cut sections, and more, all to make the construction process more efficient and precise.
Key Insights:
- The process begins by annotating the project, specifically the foundations, in order to provide the contractor with relevant information such as the dimensions from the grid to the end of the grade beam. This helps the contractor determine the appropriate material sizes and needs.
- Revit Structure allows for detailed customization of notations, enabling the addition of prefixes, suffixes, and other information to dimensions. This feature is used to add typical dimensions throughout horizontal grade beams on the sheet, making it clear to the contractor what measurements are standard.
- Revit also allows for the cutting of sections that have been previously imported and created in detail sheets. This includes the ability to cut a live section for import into a detail sheet, or to reference another view that has been previously created. This feature also includes the addition of a 'live bubble', which gives information about the detail and sheet it's cut on.
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Hello, welcome back to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've placed our stairs on a sheet, let's go ahead and start finishing up our project by placing details and annotating some other information that's necessary for our project.
First, let's finish annotating our project. Let's zoom in on our foundations. What we want to do is provide the contractor with enough information to build from.
We're going to give them a dimension from the grid to the end of the grade beam. By doing this, it will help the contractor determine the length and depth needed to obtain the correct material sizes. So let's go here.
Let's finish this. Let's go here and do one in this direction. Typically, we're 10 feet off.
So instead of dimensioning every one, escape out of that. What we're going to do is add to this notation. So let's pick it.
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Click in the text area. When you see the box, that gives us a dialog box where we can change how the information reads in our text. We can replace the text entirely and insert a note, or we can add to it.
This adds information above the dimension. This field gives it a prefix, the suffix field adds information after, and we can also add information below it. What we want to do for this one is add "typical" next to the 10 so that the contractor knows this is a typical dimension throughout the horizontal grade beams on the sheet.
Let's go to the suffix, type in "typical" or "TYP" (abbreviation for typical), and hit OK. Now we're going to do this at each location because Revit doesn’t work globally—it works locally.
We’ll do it here. Again, suffix: TYP. Let’s finish the other two.
The nice thing about Revit is that after you’ve done it a few times, you get very efficient at placing information. Okay, we’ve identified our grade beams. Let’s go ahead and cut some sections that we’ve previously imported and created in the detail sheets.
Let’s go up to View, and here we have the Section tool in our Create palette, but we also have it in our Quick Toolbar. Let’s go here first. Now it gives us a couple of options.
We can cut a live section through here, which we can import into our detail sheet and modify, or we can reference another view that we’ve previously created in our Drafting Views. Here, we see all of the views and the detail slots where they are located on their sheets. Okay, we want the column at foundation interior, so let's pick this, and it draws from head to tail—with the head at the top and the tail at the bottom.
Since it has been previously referenced, it gives us the number of the detail and the sheet it’s cut on. This is known as a live bubble. Let’s double-click it, and here we see the information for our grade beam and column.
Let’s exit that. Okay, let’s cut one more in this direction, head to tail. Oh, but we forgot to reference it.
The nice thing about Revit is that if we already have our detail bubble placed, we can go back and reference the section through here. Let’s pick our section tool from the Quick Toolbar. Let’s go to Reference Other View > New Drafting View > Column at Foundation Interior.
Let’s draw this head to tail. Very good. Let’s exit this.
Now, if you notice, we’ve got a live bubble here. What that means is if we cut another bubble and just assign any reference—for example, a wall section—and escape out of that,
You’ll see we now have a similar bubble here and a random reference bubble there. What we can do in Revit is select it, and assign a different reference name—or pick the correct reference bubble—which, in this case, is the foundation wall exterior. There we have it.
Now we’ll pick that. We see the detail we brought in from AutoCAD, along with the information on it and the section cut for that wall. Very good.
Let’s zoom out—ZX—and go ahead and finish detailing this lower level. We’ll move on to the upper level in the next video. That’s it for this video.
We’ll see you in the next one.