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 to our project.
First, let's finish annotating our project. Let's zoom in on our foundations. What we want to do is we want to give the contractor enough information to build from.
We're going to give him a dimension from the grid to the end of the grade beam. And by doing this, it will help the contractor figure out a length and a depth to get his material sizes and needs. 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 everyone, escape out of that. What we're going to do is we're going to add to this notation. So let's pick it.
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Let's pick in the text area. When you see the box, that gives us a dialog box where we can change the information as it reads in our text. We can actually replace the text and put a note here, which will replace the text here, or we can add to it.
This adds information above the dimension. This gives it a prefix before the suffix information after, and we can give information below it. What we want to do for this one is we want to add typical next to the 10 so that the contractor knows that this is a typical dimension throughout his horizontal grade beams on the sheet.
Let's go to 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 on a global basis. It works locally.
We'll do it here. Again, suffix, TYP. Let's finish out the other two.
Nice thing about Revit is after you've done it a couple of 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.
So let's go up here to view, and here we have the section tool in our create palette, but we also have it here in our quick toolbar. Let's go here first. Now it gives us a couple of options here.
We can go ahead and cut a live section through here, which we can import into our detail sheet and make modifications, or we can reference another view that we've previously created in our drafting views here, and here we have all of the views and the detail slots where they are on their sheets. Okay, so we want the column at foundation interior, so let's pick this, and it draws from head to tail. We go the head at the top, and the tail here.
Now since it's 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. So let's pick it twice, and here we see we have the information for our grade beam and our column.
Let's get out of that. Okay, let's cut one more in this direction, head to tail. Oh, but we forgot to reference it.
Nice thing about Revit is if we have our detail bubble here, now let's go back and reference the section through here. Let's pick our section in 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 get out of this.
Now if you notice, we've got a live bubble here, and what that means is if we cut another bubble and just give it any reference, let's go here. Let's do a wall section. Let's escape out of that.
You notice we have a similar here, and we have just a random reference bubble here. What we can do in Revit is we can go here, we can pick it, and we can give it a different reference name or pick the right reference bubble, which is we want the foundation wall exterior. There we have it.
Now we'll pick that. We see we have our detail that we brought in from AutoCAD and the information we have on it and the section cut for that wall. Very good.
Let's go ahead and zoom out to the X and go ahead and finish detailing out 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.