Explore effective ways to use a DWF file as a tool for digital red lines in Revit Project Management. This article will guide you through the process of marking up and translating these markings back into a Revit file.
Key Insights
- The DWF file can be used to highlight areas of a plan that require attention or coordination, such as misplaced room tags or exposed columns.
- The markup and measure tab in Revit offers a range of options for marking up a file, including drawing shapes and adding text notes. The marked-up file can then be translated back into a Revit file.
- Keeping a record of markings is crucial, so the original file should be saved separately from the marked-up version. The marked-up file should be saved as a DWF file with an updated date and a suffix indicating it includes markups.
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Hello and welcome to the CAD Teacher VDCI video series for Revit Project Management. In this video we're going to take a look at how we can use our DWF file as a tool for digital red lines. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a look at this plan.
Okay so I'm going to zoom in and I'm just using the wheel here kind of rolling it forward so I can zoom in on an area and right off the bat I can see a couple of things that I'd like to have coordinated. Number one I'm not too happy that the room tag is over the it looks like a junction box and data outlet and so I'd want to have that that fix resolve it myself or have one of the team members correct that as well. And pretty much you know this is something that we'd want to note there's an exposed column here that would have to be handled same with along our corridor so we'd want to coordinate those things.
So what I'm going to do is I want to mark this up and I want to make sure that we can put this over our drawings in Revit and we can have it kind of as a record of things that would need to get fixed. If we go to our markup and measure tab which is right here at the top I've got a series of options here I can simply draw shapes so I can just put a rectangle over something or let's actually use the ellipse so it's kind of a notifier that hey something's going on here or I can use the cloud or call out with a rectangle and this will allow me to add text as well. So I can draw my cloud markup here and then I can add to that a note so I can say adferring to column okay and then I can continue making those comments so instead of just having the ellipse here which is great but it doesn't anybody very much so I can do the same thing here and then I can go through and I can mark up the drawing accordingly okay and this was the ellipse here okay and those markups can then be translated back into a Revit file.
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So what I want to do is I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to this is the original that I received so I want to save as and note that this is the one that has the markups. So I'm going to do a save as and I'm going to save as a dwf file and so at the end of this I would adjust the date if it was different and then I'll do a suffix that'll say markup so it'll be my initials and then markup okay and so now we're going to go ahead and import this into Revit.
