Discover how to efficiently add keynotes to your floor plan using the organizing principles of parent categories, key numbers, and key values. Learn different methods to organize keynotes including the CSI master format and the usage of sequential keynotes.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the importance of understanding the organizing principles of keynotes, which include parent categories, key numbers, and key values. This understanding aids in the efficient addition of keynotes to a floor plan.
- Various methods can be utilized to organize the keynotes. These methods range from using the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) master format to simply using sequential keynotes.
- Element keynotes are considered appropriate for elements that are easy to select and carry little risk of being grabbed incorrectly. The addition of element keynotes in the floor plan view translates into adding element keynotes in the elevations as well.
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Before we get too far into our annotations, what I want to do is go ahead and add many keynotes so that we can use those for our floor plan. And right now when I open up my keynote file, you can see we've just got these four plan keynotes. And so to expedite this, what I'm going to do is I don't have to type as much.
I'm going to copy to clipboard using CTRL C, or you can right-click and copy the floor plan parent note so that we can just start adding these. So I'm going to go in and I'm going to add F05. And that's going to be guardrail F06.
And see what I did? I missed it. So it's something we always got to double check and make sure we're doing here. F06 is going to be water closet.
We'll start noting some of our toilet fixtures. F07, I'm going to make the urinal. F08, I'm going to do the wall-mounted sinks or wall-mounted laboratories.
It looks like I have extra space. Nope. And then F09, toilet partition.
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F10, this will be a mirror. And as we're going through, if there's any more that we want to go ahead and add, we can do that. And so we are going to use these keynotes for both our plan and elevation, pretty much everything on this sheet.
I know the category does say plan, but we don't want to repeat ourselves too many times here. Another method, this is just one way to organize keynotes. You can do this however you want.
But another method that I actually prefer to use is using the CSI master format to organize these. Some people just use sequential, like one through a million or whatever. So however it works for you is definitely good.
It's just a matter of understanding the principles here of having the parent categories, the key number, the key value, and then the reference back to the parent category. So I'm going to save this and then we'll pop over into our project. And using our keyboard shortcut, I'm going to hit the KK so it pops up, hit reload, and then we can view our keynote file.
And I can see that the notes I just added have been added and we're ready to start adding keynotes in here. I'm going to start in the floor plan view. And there's a couple of things that we could do in here to add the keynotes.
And one of them is definitely appropriate in this case. And that is using element keynotes here. And the reason I consider that to be appropriate is because these elements are very easy to select and there's not a lot of risk in grabbing the wrong thing.
And so you know we can just burn through this really quickly and adding that element keynote in the floor plan view. And you can see here look at that urinal space floor plan. So I think we know what happened there.
I hit a space instead of a tab so that's something that we'll have to fix. And then I can add this one here for the water closet. And then maybe one more here which this one already has a keynote assigned to it.
See how it's the 10 0 5 that's built into the family there. But we're going to change it to something else because we don't actually have that key value in in our project. Okay and so I've got these for some reason that doesn't want to line up but that's okay.
And so I've got those set already and that was super fast. And what's great is now I can go into the women's room and kind of do the same thing where I could quickly get these tagged and not have to worry about that was a different partition so that's why that one is showing differently. And so I can always go in there and click on it which double clicked instead.
But I can change that key value here to be the what I actually want it to be which in this case is the toilet partition. And I'm just going to kind of tidy things up a little bit. Small things but it does matter makes things look nicer.
Okay so now very easy and very quickly added keynotes to my floor plan. And because we did the element that all translates into adding keynotes element keynotes into our elevations as well. Remember that trick we looked at before where we can add a host and it'll give me another tag.
We could easily do that here for our sinks and the same thing with all of our elements in elevation we can go through and add those keynotes for these guys as well. So that's a benefit to using the element keynotes in in that particular view. So I'm going to go ahead and add the rest of my element keynotes to both my elevations and my plan view here so that we have it all set up.
So I've gone through and added all the keynotes for our plumbing fixtures and elements in level two level one which we demonstrated together and then I just went through and added the same notes that we're using for the plan into the elevation here. And one thing I noticed as I was going through it is you know we do have these partitions which I want to show in elevation but I'd also like to see beyond them because there's nothing on there that I'm really trying to highlight here. And so what we can do there's a couple ways we can do this.
You can hide or override a graphic per view. So I could do override graphics in view by element and I can make changes here but that's going to be a one-off change for that one element in that one view. If I wanted to make the change globally to all of my views I can do that with my interior elevations template.
And if I were to take a look at this is a specialty equipment category and so I could adjust this category to have a different look and it would modify in every single one of these elevation views. One thing to keep in mind is we make a change like this by category in this view any other specialty equipment category that we use is going to take on those parameters. So just keeping that in mind we'll go into our model overrides here.
We're going to look for specialty equipment and you can see there's a few different options in here. We've got our these are the subcategories that came in with the toilet partitions and so we can adjust those individually or we can adjust it globally here. We have our projection lines which would be the lines that we see for here right and then we also have our surface lines and transparency.
So I can set the transparency to be 100% which would be fully transparent which means you could see through it and then I can set my projection line to be a patterned line like a dashed line and then I can give it a lower line weight so it's not as bold which I think it's already set to one but with those couple of changes here if I hit okay and get out of that then we'll start to see some changes to the specialty equipment which did not make it transparent and you can see it's now transparent in these views here but I didn't get my dash line so we need to take a look and see why those ones in didn't go to dash. We can take a look at that view template again and I'll go to my specialty equipment which you can see we set to dashed and transparent and if I look at these guys here I could just go ahead and override all of these subcategories to have that dash pattern and I think that's going to give us a better chance of getting the look that we want for that category and you can see they're now going to show dashed for each one of those subcategories in each one of our views so they're still part of the view but we can still see beyond because what if we had like a tile pattern or something we wanted to show back on this wall here. Okay I'm going to go ahead and hit save here and then in the next video we're going to take a look at adding some dimensions to the plan.
