Explore the process of annotating a project in Revit Structure, including the steps to add necessary dimensions and information for builders. Learn how to notate individual beams, set up your system, select tag types, and identify your slab.
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- The article discusses the process of annotating a project in Revit Structure, including annotating individual beams and identifying the slab.
- Readers are guided through setting up their system, including using the tag by category feature, selecting the correct tag types, and adjusting settings for proper beam tagging.
- The article also includes a detailed explanation on how to identify the slab, with instructions on how to use the annotate tab, select a two-segment arrow, and adjust the leader and justification settings.
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Hello and welcome back to Revit Structure. Let's get started. In a previous video, we annotated or noted dimensions on our drawing.
So what we're going to do is we're going to start annotating our project, meaning we’re going to place notations in the project with dimensions and information necessary to communicate to the builder what the structure contains. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to go to Level 2, and we're going to notate or place annotations on our beams.
The first thing we want to do is go to Tag*, Tag by Category*, and save our project first. Now what we're going to do is set up our system. If we select Tags*, it will show the loaded tags that we have.
Here in our Structural Framing, we have Framing Tag Type Mark*. What we want is our Framing Tag Standard*. So let's pick that.
Click OK*. We don’t need a leader at this point since we’re tagging individual beams. We won’t tag the moment frame or the brace frame because we’ll do that in an elevation later in the project.
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The first thing we want to do is hover over the beam, and you see the size appears. Let’s pick that. Let’s do that for all of our beams.
Here, here, here, here, and here. You go ahead and finish annotating the rest of the structure, and I'll see you when you're finished. Okay, now that we’ve finished placing the beam tags, let’s escape out of that command and go to our Text command because we’re going to identify our slab.
Now if you notice here, we have a 2½-inch lightweight concrete on 3-inch metal deck. We’re going to go to our Annotate tab. And we're going to select Text*.
When we pick Text*, we have options for placing leaders in various styles. We want a two-segment leader, so let's pick that. We’ll place the leader at the top, both right and left, and we’ll use left justification.
Let’s place it. We can place it anywhere on the slab. Click here.
Let’s zoom in. We can place our leader anywhere on the slab. Let’s pick here and identify it.
We have a 3-inch steel deck with 2½-inch concrete topping. Let’s zoom in and run a spell check. It’s always good to run a spell check.
Change that. We’re complete. Let’s consolidate this a little bit.
Make it look a little better. Let’s come in here and hit return. Stretch this out a little bit, and there you have it.
We’ve noted the system that we have for our finished floor. Let’s zoom out. Zoom out.
And now we have a notated deck. Let’s go up to Level 3. You see we have several more items to annotate on this floor.
Let’s come back and do that in the next video. That’s it. We’ll see you in the next one.