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    Default Using Keynotes with Condoc Example

    EDIT: NOTE WITH RELEASE 9 this tutorial changes. While some concepts are the same,
    Release 9 has changed the approach to be taken with keynotes.


    Here is a simple tutorial on creating Keynotes. Many have asked on the forum how to do the CSI condoc method. This tutorial will show you one way.

    As always comments are welcome.

    This is a PDF file zipped to fit under file limits
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    Last edited by SkiSouth; 2006-04-24 at 04:27 PM.

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    nice tutorial Ski! You always give really good desciptions and images!

    Reading this, makes me think again, how nice it would be if the Factory would create a way for us to make annotations "sheet aware", like a detail callout knows what sheet its on. Then when you created your Noteblock for your keynotes, the noteblock could be set to fill in only the notes on that sheet.

    It can be done now, through your shared parameter, but the user has to manually fill in the sheet number for the keynote tag.....thats so anti-Revit!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Davis
    It can be done now, through your shared parameter, but the user has to manually fill in the sheet number for the keynote tag.....thats so anti-Revit!
    Thanks Scott. I just try to write them so if I have to go back and use the tutorial, I can understand what I did...

    I agree about being "sheet aware". The information is there as Revit "knows" when a detail has been placed on what sheet, so it would be nice to have access to that information as a "read only" variable.

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    Thanks Skisouth!

    My keynote / type catalogs are working so much better now, have adapted it to the AU Speed-Spec specification codes. My architect customers are quite impressed.

    Would really love a guru to do a short TnT on using the Excel2TC processor, I am only a guru in training and would like to get my head around this!

    TIA
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    Quote Originally Posted by Burt'o
    Thanks Skisouth!

    My keynote / type catalogs are working so much better now, have adapted it to the AU Speed-Spec specification codes. My architect customers are quite impressed.

    Brent
    Cool, , glad this tutorial helped..

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    Default Re: Using Keynotes with Condoc Example

    Excel2TC processor
    As I wrote it I may be able to help

    What is it you don't understand?

    FWIW, excel2TC was written for 3 reasons.

    Firstly, it was written to deal with certain issues with text formatting of type catalogue text entries. I haven't tested this, but apparently these issues are no longer required as of V7? Anyone from the factory prepared to comment?

    Secondly, it was meant as a proof of concept for further development.

    Thirdly, as has been discussed in a wide number of threads, keynoting has quite a few issues that need to be resolved. And as yet, this hasn't happened in either V5,6 or V7. The intention is/was to develop the excel2TC further when the functionality improved. Perhaps they're waiting for the API to correct these deficiencies? That presents a little bit of a problem for the continuing development of this program, so we'll see what happens.

    I'd be interested to hear what issues excel2TC has for people trying to use it and what they'd like to see improved.

    You can get me directly on guy AT r-e-d.co.nz

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    Thanks Ski!
    Great job!!!
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    Great tutorial Ski!

    Building my standard keynotes out of Condoc listing and have run into strange error code. When loading my keynote file I get "Cannot parse header F4" and will not load.
    Any ideas on my problem?

    Have double checked line code and all seems right.

    Thanks.

    MarcTsap

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    not sure but sounds like a text error. Did you try the text file I included in the tutorial? You can also
    try just a few lines of your keynote file to see if that works. If it does then there's probably an error
    somewhere in your data base. If not, could be a formatting error.

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    Sorry Ski, found my problem just after I posted. Next time shuld wait a little longer. Was a database problem with my ","s. Did a Find and Replace and solved my problem. Oncea again a great tutorial and end result.

    Other question is how do you get leaders to change ends. Leader is on left side and sometimes needs to be on right (obviously). When I try to drag mid-grip it drops to origin at lower right away from text. Is there a "hand" on this text similar to standard text blocking.

    Oh, just thought about it , and may be in your tutorial, do I need a left and right family for leader location? I will try that but tell be if I am right. Seems this could double up your text file database by doing this. But oh well.

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