I'm curious to know other's take on what I see as a bit of a dilemma.
The Revit keynotes have breakdowns for different manifestations of the same material. I.e., gypsum board. There is the basic material, gypsum board, and then its variations - 1/4", 1/4" Type x, 1/2", etc.
Given that every material now has identity information we can associate with it, do I...
- Create a different material definition for each thickness of gypsum board? Seems to have problems when I rely on the end user to select the right gysum board material out of the 10 or 20 that may be in the list when they are making a new wall type on the fly. But, it keynotes easily with Keynote>Material
- Have all the different gypsum board sizes and types in my keynote database and just use the Keynote>User command to keynote it properly. Again this relies on the person doing the annotations to properly call out the right keynote.
- Just keynote the basic material using Keynote>Material and selecting gypsum board and rely on a dimension to indicate the thickness.
I see the same type of problem with different types of glazing, brick masonry, etc.