TABLE OF CONTENTS In this chapter, you will learn how to add annotations to your views to begin noting information for presentation and construction documents. No set of documents is complete without annotations to describe the drawings. Even in a parametric model, you will need to supply dimensions, tags, text, and notes to aid in the communication of the design to the owner, contractor, and design team.
In this chapter you ll learn to do the following:
Create rooms and tag them
Combine rooms and tags with schedules
Understand the different ways to annotate a project
Create and modify keynotes
In any set of documents, showing geometry alone isn t sufficient to communicate all the information a builder or fabricator needs to construct the building. Annotations assist in clearly documenting your model for others to read and understand. Tags, dimensions, text, and keynotes all need to be added to the drawing in order to clearly and concisely guide construction. Revit provides a rich set of tools for accomplishing these tasks.
Annotations, dimensions, and tags are placed in the views, in relation to real elements, not on the sheet. This allows you to annotate a view at any point in the process, before or after the final (sheet) document has been created. See Figure 15.1.
Rooms help define areas and spaces within the Revit model. Even if a room represents empty space between boundaries of physical elements, it...
