No panacea for notations

[mikesheehan]

My delima:
I have these renovation projects for a major restaurant chain. Currently in ACAD we have been using key notes based loosely on CONDOC.

Each project has about 150 key notes ranging in length from 3 to 30 words. Lot of verbal description on work.

This was not so bad using ArchT under ACAD 2000. I put the keys on the drawing and ArchT had a subroutine which would generate a schedule with only the keynotes matching the keys inserted on the sheet. Nothing so elegant in ADT - it comes close but word wrapping is not supported so my 50 word note is one long unreadable line of text.

I was hoping Revit would make my life easier, not so.

The only way I have found to duplicate this system is to create an Annotation Tag for each key note. A different Note Block for each sheet.

Assuming this is correct and I have about 6 sheets which need notes I would have to create and manage about 600 Annotation tags with lots of duplicates.

Does anybody have a better plan?
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[christopher.zoog51272]

Have a look at the keynote famlies in this thread

http://www.zoogdesign.com/forums/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2528

You can use it to load in only the key notes you need on a project basis. It will fill in the key note and the description for you.

To filter our certain portons of the noteblock per sheet will be difficult, but you may be able to do it. :?:

Z.

[GuyR]

To filter our certain portons of the noteblock per sheet will be difficult, but you may be able to do it.

You can sort of do it.

If you're running V6.X then refer to this thread http://www.zoogdesign.com/forums/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1974&highlight=for sheet based keynoting.To filter within a sheet add an additional parameter for category and filter/sort on sheet then category. See attached family.

You can use the excel2TC program for converting a large excel worksheet into a type catalog but beware the types don't update if you reload into the project.

You can add a linefeed in a schedule text field by using CTRL-Enter to break up a long string. Unfortunately each row in a schedule is a single line so it's not very readable.

HTH,

Guy