Keynotes in 2005?

[Scott D Davis]

Just got 2005 installed and have a lot to get used to. Office is jumping from r14 to 2005 and Revit. Is there a built in system for keynoting in 2005? I thought I heard it was an included feature, but can't find any documentation on it.

Thanks for any assistance!

[mjfarrell]

Intersting that the Tip n' Tricks manager doesn't have this trick up his sleeve.
Perhaps it is time that you get some from me??? :)

Solution


In Autodesk® Architectural Desktop 2005, the detailing functionality has been significantly changed, and there is no longer a separate Details menu. The majority of the details functionality is now available in the Detail Component Manager, accessible on the Insert menu or the Detailing tool palette. The keynoting portion of the detailing functionality is now available on the Document tool palette under the Annotation tab

[Scott D Davis]

Intersting that the Tip n' Tricks manager doesn't have this trick up his sleeve.
Perhaps it is time that you get some from me??? :)
Thanks for pointing that out, I must remember my name and posts are part of the 'whole picture' now, so I changed my Avatar Title appropriately. I used to consider myself very well versed in AutoCAD. Now, I;ve been using Revit and r14 for so long, I haven't kept up with the new features of 2000 to 2005. Looking forward to try some of the new stuff, thanks for pointing me to the keynotes,

[Scott D Davis]

One more question: your response works for ADT 2005, but is there an equivalent in vanilla AutoCAD 2005? We are not using Desktop.

[RobertB]

No, sorry there is not. You can customize (heavy-duty) to that point, of course.

[Scott D Davis]

That's what I was afraid of. We have a custom LISP that works (most of the time :-\ ) in r14 that we will probably port over to 2005. You basically place attributed tags in your plans, and edit the number in the tag to be something like <1205> in a semi CSI format. Then we have a TXT file, residing in the working directory that has the number 1205 and a description "New Accesible Entry Sign" of what ever it is.

Then in the drawing, we run 'REFNOTES.LSP' (we call 'em Ref Notes instead of Keynotes, don't know why....) The Refnotes LISP, searches the drawing for the attribute tags, and then compares the numbers of found tags against the TXT file. Any number it finds, it creates a list of the descriptions in Dtext, and places the matching attribute tag next to it. All of this goes onto the sheet, in a legend area you specify while in the LISP by picking upper left and lower right corners of the legend area.

It takes some setting up, and should be even more automated, but I guess It'll work. Anyone know of a more elegant solution? We'd like it to use Mtext instead of Dtext, but I'm not sure exactly how to change the code....