dbaldacchino
2006-02-10, 04:45 AM
Traditionally, tagging finish materials on exterior and interior elevations has always been a manual process, and thus by it's nature, prone to errors.
In large projects you end up with multiple brick colors, paints, metal panel profiles etc. and when the project team is large, things can get out of hand, whether due to lack of experience, negligence....you name it. I have seen a portion of a building elevated from different angles on multiple sheets, tagged with the wrong brick colors (on one it's BK1, on another it's BK2, while the designer intended it to be BK3!). So I thought that by switching to Revit, we would be able to control such factors easily. I thought to myself, if the building is modeled correctly with the right elements and corresponding materials, then the finishes will be tagged correctly everywhere.
Yet I have not been able to find such an automatic feature and I feel it's a decent sized hole (valuable missing feature). I can't find anything to tag a "material". I want the ability to even tag split regions with different materials. I want the ability to schedule all the used materials in the project so I can create a finish schedule (perhaps with shared parameters that can be assigned to the materials category so that each can have a "Type Mark", ex: BK1) The information is in the database because Revit knows what to render each surface with. So why not make that information available to tags?
Am I missing something or is this a feature that exists in some form, or there's a workaround? If it is a missing feature, based on your feedback, I'll add a poll to a follow-up thread to gauge how many users feel it would be valuable. Thanks all!
In large projects you end up with multiple brick colors, paints, metal panel profiles etc. and when the project team is large, things can get out of hand, whether due to lack of experience, negligence....you name it. I have seen a portion of a building elevated from different angles on multiple sheets, tagged with the wrong brick colors (on one it's BK1, on another it's BK2, while the designer intended it to be BK3!). So I thought that by switching to Revit, we would be able to control such factors easily. I thought to myself, if the building is modeled correctly with the right elements and corresponding materials, then the finishes will be tagged correctly everywhere.
Yet I have not been able to find such an automatic feature and I feel it's a decent sized hole (valuable missing feature). I can't find anything to tag a "material". I want the ability to even tag split regions with different materials. I want the ability to schedule all the used materials in the project so I can create a finish schedule (perhaps with shared parameters that can be assigned to the materials category so that each can have a "Type Mark", ex: BK1) The information is in the database because Revit knows what to render each surface with. So why not make that information available to tags?
Am I missing something or is this a feature that exists in some form, or there's a workaround? If it is a missing feature, based on your feedback, I'll add a poll to a follow-up thread to gauge how many users feel it would be valuable. Thanks all!