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utearch1

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I have two questions using 9.1.

1. When doing a wall section detail, what is best, using your level lines, or hiding them and using spot dimensions? Or a combination of both?

2. On a floor plan, what is the best way to add keyed notes to the plan and then have a keyed note legend on the sheet? For instance, if i want to label a structural column with a keyed note #1? Then reference that note in a table on the sheet? Is this done using the "keyed note" on the drafting menu? Any explanation on the best way to do this would be appreciated.

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JAMESHGRIMES

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I understand your dilemma. I struggled with the same issues.

1. When doing a section/elevation detail I found it was most efficient to use the Levels for major elevation objects (i.e. floors, ceiling heights, top of masonry,..etc.) and for specific elements I used the spot elevation. I had some issues with levels because there is no instance parameter for the level name. I also found out that those levels would show up on any elevation or section that included those elements. That was the main deciding factor for which method to use.

2. The key note feature is very useful. You can set up your master keynote text file and then reference this file with your keynote feature. Once you have this set up you can use/create a keynote tag that contains either the note itself or a designated mark. You can also create a keynote legend and filter it by sheet to show only the notes applied to the views that are located on that sheet. This will update dynamically if you add/remove/edit any of the keynotes on any of the view. I was very impressed with this feature. 

I did have an issue with general notes. I needed a section of general notes that were placed on the sheets and I ended up creating a legend with these notes typed in text. This worked out but not very well. The other solution was to create these notes directly on the sheet view and Copy/Paste Aligned to any of the sheets that needed those general notes. If anyone has any better ideas on this issue I would greatly appreciate the imput

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Thanks for your help. Can you direct me to a good tutorial on creating the key note text tile, and how that is set up.

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I did some searching and couldn't find a good tutorial on the keynote file. When I created my file I basically used the Revit help file and the keynote text file that comes with Revit to modify and create my own "tab deliminated text file". This is the format for the file. In our firm our keynotes are very simple (ex: 4.08 - 8x8x16 smooth face cmu), so it was fairly easy to set up my file because I didn't need to seperate the keynote by division. This can be done, however, with the keynote feature but I am not sure how to divide it up. I know it recognizes tabs as a separator.

Here is the format I used in the file I created:

      keynote number [tab] keynote description

     example.  4.08 [tab] 8x8x16 SMOOTH FACE CMU

Using this format the keynote tag will pick up the first section as the keynote mark, and the second as the note. When creating a keynote legend these are created as two columns so you get the keynote numbers in one column and the descriptions in the other. The keynote legend can be modified similar to a schedule from that point.

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