Revision Schedules

[Chad Smith]

So, are we going to be able to specify whether we use letters and/or number as revision markers? It looks as though it has been hardcoded to numbers only.

In our office, we use letters up to the point where drawings are issued for construction, then we change to numbers. By doing it this way, we know instantly that the change is in the construction phase, and therefore needs to be noted as a variation and the client charged accordingly.

[Chad Smith]

One thing that seems to be missing is the 'Revised By' field (I hope this has been cut off by the screen shot). The 'Revised By' field could be entered manually, or extracted automatically from the Worksets Username in the Options.

This is a crucial field that needs to be there. If someone has a problem with a drawing on site, they need to know who revised it, to get the correct information.

Please make sure that a 'Revised By' field is in before releasing 7.0.

[mark_a]

Further to Chads reply, amendment columns tend to be somewhat unique from office to office, in my experience. I hope it is still possible to use dumb text in the amendment columns, as I find this works just fine, and allows whatever whim or fancy clients or management may have.

mark_a

PS I am not knocking the good work being done at the factory, keep it up.

[Mr Spot]

Further to Chads reply, amendment columns tend to be somewhat unique from office to office, in my experience. I hope it is still possible to use dumb text in the amendment columns, as I find this works just fine, and allows whatever whim or fancy clients or management may have.

mark_a

PS I am not knocking the good work being done at the factory, keep it up.
I see, well Revit is changing everything...

Next on the list?

[Chad Smith]

One thing that seems to be missing is the 'Revised By' field (I hope this has been cut off by the screen shot). The 'Revised By' field could be entered manually, or extracted automatically from the Worksets Username in the Options.

This is a crucial field that needs to be there. If someone has a problem with a drawing on site, they need to know who revised it, to get the correct information.

Please make sure that a 'Revised By' field is in before releasing 7.0.
The 'Issued to' field needs to be changed to 'Issued by' or 'Revised by'.

I don't think I have EVER seen a drawing that has an 'Issued to' field in the revision schedule, because it's not practical. The 'Issue to' field is what is used on drawing transmittals when sending a drawing, not the actual drawing.

As noted above, an 'Issued by' field is much more practical and useful.
Please change this for the next release/point release or allow us to 'Add Parameters', I see the button is greyed out at the moment.

Also the option to use letters instead of numbers too.

And finally, an option to run the schedule from bottom to top would be very beneficial.

[bowlingbrad]

an option to run the schedule from bottom to top would be very beneficial.

Has this been resolved yet? Our office would like to see the revision schedule run UP the titleblock.

TIA,
Brad

[cadkiller]

Group;

I use two different schedules for my drawings. One for distribution and one for revisions. Can this be possible or do I have to have one and incorpoarate both of them. How do I add a distribution item to a revision schedule? For example:

Date issued - Issue for - Revision No.

2/11/04 - Design Co-ordination
4/13/04 - Structural changes - REV 1
5/15/04 - Issue to bldg dept.
6/16/04 - Bidding purposes - REV 2
7/15/04 - 80% Construction
8/24/04 - Changed walls & doors - REV 3
9/15/04 - 90% Construction
9/24/04 - Changed windows - REV 4
9/30/04 - 100% Construction

[David Conant]

In 7.0, Revit supports only a single Revisions table per project and does not allow filtering the schedule. You can only create a single table that integrates both submissions and revision issuances.
You can get a schedule like the one show by making Revision Number a hidden field - use the Formatting tab of Revision Properties. If you number revisions by project, your revision schedules will show all the submissions and revisions. The number will be invisible.
If you want to show submissions and only the revisions on a sheet, number revisions by sheet. Your revision schedules will then show only those revisions (or submissions) that have a cloud associated with them present on a sheet. To show submissions on the sheet, create a very small revision cloud for each submission on each sheet.
We are studying extensions to the revisions feature to support additional revision and submission strategies. The commentary we hear from the user community is very helpful in determining priorities.

[mmodernc]

If a revision has been marked up in four different views e.g. a major change to a roof design is clouded up on four elevations, how do you prevent the same revision showing up say four times on the revision schedule-must be something I missed

[Chad Smith]

If a revision has been marked up in four different views e.g. a major change to a roof design is clouded up on four elevations, how do you prevent the same revision showing up say four times on the revision schedule-must be something I missed

I put this in an older thread so now I put it in this one -sorry.
I don't think you quite understand Revit's revision process, or I don't understand your Q.

The revisions dialog is where you place a description for your revision 'set'.

When you place a cloud and then look at it's properties, you will notice that there is a 'Comments' field to place what your cloud is revising. In the 'Revision' field is which revision 'set' that cloud is linked to.

So essentially you are linking your current clouds to a revision set as described in the Revision dialog.

[mmodernc]

This is what I mean.

[Steve_Stafford]

You need to set the revision schedule in your titleblock so it doesn't itemize all instances.

[mmodernc]

Thanks Steve
1. I opened my titleblock rfa
2. In the project browser I selected Schedules-Revision Schedule
3. I then selected element properties-sorting/grouping and unchecked itemise every instance and clicked ok-ok
4. I then saved the rfa
5. I then loaded rfa into rvt and ovewrote existing titleblock.
6. The revision schedule updated and I ended up with one date and nothing else.
I went back to the titleblock rfa and this time put some parameters in for sorting the revision numbers and then got the complete table with only one instance of each revision.
Thanks again