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Original Email:
For the title sheet, you mention that we need to include the building summary just as it is on the pdf file. Does that mean I just type everything as is using the text tool on the title sheet? I included an attachment of the building summary I found on the pdf.
Also, how do we come up with the "exit calculations" map that I saw on the pdf?Same thing for the vicinity map and the general notes.
My Reply:
Building Summary:For this, yes you basically just retype what your plans show. However, I would suggest not typing it directly on your title sheet because it's not always easy to format and move. What I would suggest instead is to right click on the Legends part of your Project Browser and select New Legend.It will then ask what you want to name it, call it Building Summary. Now you can type, format, align, box your text, etc. all within this view. Since it's an annotation, it only appears within this view so when you're done typing and spellchecking you'll then just drag this view onto your title sheet. By making a legend and adding your text there it saves a lot of the headache from piling a lot of text onto the title sheet using the text tool.I would suggest one more step after placing this view on your sheet. Revit will treat this as any other view and it will automatically add the title and scale at the bottom. Hopefully you've added the title when you typed up the text (as it more or less appears in the plans) and the scale is irrelevant. So, this is useless doubling of information:This is an easy fix. With your view selected, select Edit Type on the Properties menu. Duplicate and rename ('No Title' would work well) the selected viewport. After you've duplicated (be sure to duplicate!!!) simply change Show Title to No. Hit Apply then OK.Now all your annotative viewports can use this new Viewport and the title/scale will not be visible. The only thing left now is to simply drag and arrange the information so it looks good.NOTE: I would use this same process of creating a new Legend for the Exit Calculations text & General Notes text as well with the only exception being the names. Once you place the Exit Calculations or General Notes on a sheet, just select your No Title viewport form the dropdown in the properties menu, you will not have to reduplicate.Vicinity Map:Be sure to not over think this step. I personally don’t like the weird colors on the map in our drawings, so I would visit Google or Bing and search for our buildings address. Change the view to NOT be a photograph and save that image. Crop it down and resize it so we just see the important information then head over to Revit.In Revit, make another Legend. Go to Insert>Import>Image and select your map of the site. Place it on the new Legend that you've created. Decrease its physical size so it's roughly the size of the map on our drawings and then add your text (title, site notation, north arrow, etc). Once you get it notated, drag & drop it on your sheet.Did professor Peters say he wanted the Exit Calculation map in class? If so, tackle that step this way. In your Project Browser, right click on your floor plan and select Duplicate View>Duplicate (this just copies the view so you can use it for other reasons).This view will automatically be named 'Copy of… ' so change it instead to be Exit Calculations. Changing this view name will not show up on any of your sections or elevations. Now in this new view use the Region tool (Annotate>Detail>Region) to add the patterns you need. You can then either use the Detail Component dialog to try and load exit arrows, or made a solid hatch region to show these areas. The text tool can then be used to insert whatever misc. text needs to be added. Obviously, if you add the Exit Calculations text in this view then you won't need the Exit Calculations Legend.Hopefully that answered your questions with enough clarity for you to knock out these steps.
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