Discover how to use legends, adjust graphics, and use keynotes when working with floor plans in Revit. Learn the importance of precision in graphic color selection for print and digital viewing, and how to apply keynotes to your floor plan efficiently.
Key Insights
- When working with partition schedules in Revit, using the 'no title' viewport allows for a clean and organized layout, which can be easily replicated across different floor plans.
- Adjusting the color of the graphics can significantly enhance the visual quality of your floor plan. However, the selected color must balance the visibility in both printed and digital formats. It is recommended to keep the RGB around 170 for the best results.
- Keynotes can be added to your floor plan for better annotation and understanding. Ensure your keynote settings are referencing the correct keynote file for accuracy. This method provides an organized system that prevents the need for a lengthy and confusing list of keynotes.
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So let's take this partition schedule and we know it needs to go on at least two sheets. So A101, or I'm sorry, A201 and A202. So I've jumped over to A201.
And I'm going to go to Legends and grab that partition schedule. And we're going to use that same no title viewport that we created for the other one. And you can see we can kind of fit it in here nicely down at the bottom.
And this is a good point in time to decide if this graphic here bothers you or not. And then also look at it and see if maybe we think it's a little too bold. And so, since I have a feeling some of you might agree with that, I'm going to go ahead and jump into our Properties here for that one-hour stud layer and show you that it's just a matter of adjusting the color of this one.
And so if we take it down into kind of like a gray color like this one, you can see the RGB is around a 134. If you take it too low, like to these 192s, the print quality on paper starts to degrade. Whereas like when you have it at like 128, it doesn't show well.
If you're only concerned with how it looks on PDF and digital, this is the way to go because it's going to look pretty good. But just know that it won't show up as well printed on paper, depending on your printer, of course. So I'm going to split the difference here and go with like around a 170 and hit OK all the way out.
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And you can see that metal stud was the material I modified. So it doesn't matter which wall type we use, they all get updated. And so that's why we try to do things that way.
And it made a big difference here. These look much better. And so now we've got a nice clean-looking schedule here.
And so obviously we would like to have this schedule be located in the same location on the other floor plan. So what I'll do here is I will just select it and copy to clipboard. And then I'll pop over to A202 and do Paste Aligned to Current View.
And now we've got a partition schedule on our Level One Floor Plan and on our Level Two Floor Plan. Now we've got a few more items that we need to pick up on our redline list. If we jump over and just take a look, you can see there's a few keynotes that need to be added here.
Noting the floor above and then also getting some other keynotes like for the column here, adding this door tag. And so we're going to go ahead and do that now. If we jump back over to Revit, we can start on Level Two here.
And on that Markup, there was a graphic that just showed or open to below. And that's as simple as, and this is one of those ones you want to make sure you're activated in the view, of course. So you don't draw this in what we would use to call paper space.
But I'm just going to draw lines here to note like this area that is open to below. So there's no confusion here. And we'll use that overhead line.
That was a good line type for that. And then I'll just add some text here that just says open. So it's obvious that this isn't just a different change in plane or anything like that.
So that was an easy one. The next one we can do is add some keynotes since we haven't really done much of that in this class yet. And so the first thing we always do when we do keynotes is go to our Annotate tab and make sure that our Keynote settings are referencing the right Keynote file.
And you can see mine here is definitely not. So I'm going to go and hit Browse. And then I'm just going to change it to the BIM 303 keynotes, because this is the one that we are all working with here.
Keynote Table has been uploaded successfully. And so we can view that. And then we can see we've got our Elevation Keynotes, Floor Plan Keynotes, Roof Plan Keynotes, and Site Keynotes.
And so there's probably more that we're going to be adding as we go through here. And we'll definitely need to be keeping track of that. And we'll go through and add them as we need.
Right now we're just going to go ahead and add them as needed. So I'm going to hit OK here. And there was one more thing that I wanted to check before I close that.
And that was I wanted to make sure we are doing By Keynote. And the reason we're doing By Keynote is because we're using a system that helps us use the same Keynote number for every item in here. It's not like we're doing a list of one through,000 on this.
So I'm going to hit Cancel a couple of times and then just hit OK here. And then we can go ahead and keynote using a User Keynote. And then I can pick say this column here, pick my floor plan and say column, and I'll hit OK.
And we can cheat. Remember, we're not above that. If I want this to be a typical note, I can just say typical and place this next to it here.
So that we don't have to keynote 100 times. The other one is we can keynote the Feature Stair. So I can select this guy and just hit Create Similar, which allows me to just keynote this object with the Floor Plan note and pick Feature Stair.
Same thing with the elevator. Might as well add that one in here. And so now we've got keynotes.
For those objects, if we go down to Level One. You can see we've got a few notes here already added and we can add some more, so make sure we've got these. And I'll just jump over to our Markup to make sure we've got everything.
We have keynote for elevator. We got floor above. We've already got this floor above.
We need to check and make sure we've got that one. I saw we had the column one already, so I'll go ahead and double-check. And looks like we don't have this, the keynote F04 for this.
We'll do a User Keynote for this guy. And you may notice it's off the page a little bit, so we need to bring back our Crop Region here. And what we're going to do is we're going to actually get a keynote to bring it—almost going to spoof it here.
And so what I'll do is I'll do a User Keynote and I'll point it to say the Curtain Wall here because it doesn't matter what it points to, it just needs a host. And then I can say extent of second floor above. And then I can move this guy to be wherever I want it to be, say like that, making sure it's pointing to the object.
Okay. And so for now, those are the keynotes that we're going to add for Level One and the keynotes that we're going to add for Level Two, as well as a couple of other notes that we've taken care of. When I look back at our Markup, we've got all these keynotes, we've got all these dimensions added, we've adjusted our graphics to make sure our Section looks pretty good.
And then we added our partition schedule. When we take a look at what we did on Level Two is we've updated our dimensions on Level Two, we've added a few keynotes. This note here is asking us to keynote the elevator and this one's saying to update the detail level, all of which we've done.
Our fixtures are showing on Level Two now. We'll double-check that. I'm pretty sure I saw them in there and they are.
And it looks like we've got the appropriate Room Tags. And so we're at a good spot now with our floor plans. And so now we can go ahead and take a look at our Roof Plan.
So I'm going to go ahead and save this and then we can jump into our Roof Plan in the next video.
