Generic schedules, legends, and notes

[jeffrey.75043]

HI! I just purchased Revit for our office and we have jumped right in and hit a few snags turning construction drawings into permit drawings.

Does anyone know how to:
1. Use the schedule format for non-referenced city notes and such things,

2. Add parameters to the project information in the settings pull-down box,

3. and set up a simple graphic legend with the electrical symbols provided?

??
Jeffrey

[PeterJ]

For number one take a look at keynotes, or possibly at just making annotation families that cover the city requirement notes.

I don't think you can add anything to the project information list, but if you give more detail of what you want to achieve there is probably a method.

there are a number of means to achieve number three, do a search here on the topic and you will find them and be able to decide which option will work best for you.

[jeffrey.75043]

Hi Peter!
Thanks for the ideas.

I have looked at keynotes and it seems these would need to be created on a sheet that would not be used so that a schedule could reference it. I have 140 notes that would become 140 keynotes. Is that what you meant by keynotes?
If these notes became an annotation family would there need to be 140 files created to make a schedule out of it?
It seems it would be easier if there was a generic schedule that would allow any type of information to be typed in without being referencing somewhere else and have the ability to stretch the schedule, break it, and organize data within the same system as all the other schedules.

For our project information we would like to add other redundant things that appear on every sheet like the engineer, surveyor, and geologist.

Thanks again!
Jeffrey

[sfaust]

for number 2, look up shared parameters. You will need to make a shared parameter for these fields in your titleblock. Unfortunately, you can not currently make a shared parameter project-wide, so it will be an instance parameter on each sheet. A quick way to update everything is to make a new drawing list with those parameters and turning off "itemize every instance" under the sorting/grouping tab. This will give you just one field for all of your sheets. Change it here, it will change on all sheets. Incidentally, if you add a new sheet after entering this information, it will not automatically copy the others, you will have to edit the new sheet seperately or go back and re-enter it in the schedule.

This was talked about in more detail somewhere on this forum, but I can't seem to find it now...

[beegee]

I have looked at keynotes and it seems these would need to be created on a sheet that would not be used so that a schedule could reference it. I have 140 notes that would become 140 keynotes. Is that what you meant by keynotes?
If these notes became an annotation family would there need to be 140 files created to make a schedule out of it?
It seems it would be easier if there was a generic schedule that would allow any type of information to be typed in without being referencing somewhere else and have the ability to stretch the schedule, break it, and organize data within the same system as all the other schedules.

Noteblocks and keynotes are rows and columns where each row is identified by a keynote and description that goes with that keynote and you continue to add rows with unique keynotes ( instances ). You then sort and filter the noteblock just like other schedules. Thats really the power of doing this within Revit. But yes, you would require a keynote for each note and you would need to place these somewhere in order to create the Noteblock ( ie the Schedule )

Alternatively, you can cut and paste an Excel doc into a view, or make the excel doc into a jpg and import it. ( Discussed at length elsewhere in the Forum some time ago )
Similarly Word docs of course.
Or you could make an annotation family that contained all the notes and place that.