Continue to develop your understanding of keynoting with tags and types in this article, with a focus on window sill and jam details. Learn practical steps such as how to tag specific elements, handle error messages, extend the annotation crop region, edit a keynote text file, and add keynotes to a heading.
Key Insights
- The article provides detailed instructions on how to effectively use keynoting with tags and types, specifically focusing on window sill and jam details.
- Readers are guided on how to handle error messages that occur while tagging elements like the 2x5 aluminum curtain wall mullion and the concrete slab. Solutions provided include extending the annotation crop region and aligning elements.
- Instructions are given on editing a keynote text file, adding new keynotes to a heading, and reloading the keynotes on Revit. The process of annotating using user keynotes is also covered.
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In this video, we're going to continue looking at keynoting with tags and types, and we're going to look at our Window Sill and Jamb details. So let's first go to the Section Detail Window Sill. Go to the Annotate tab in the ribbon and in the Tag panel,
Let's go ahead and select keynote, Element Keynote, and let's go ahead and tag the 2" X 5" aluminum curtain wall mullion. And you'll notice we have an error, but we'll go ahead and fix that a little bit later.
And then let's go ahead and tag our concrete slab. We get the same error message. So what we need to do here is what we did previously.
Extend the annotation crop region. Let's go ahead and get these guys aligned to one another. Now if you need to call something out that you haven't yet assigned in the keynote text file, you're going to have to go into that keynote text file and actually edit it.
Now let's go to our keynotes.txt file, wherever you've saved it locally, and go ahead and open it up. And you can see you've been in here before. The way it's set up, you have the keynote number, the keynote description, and then you have a tab under each one of the keynotes that relates back to the heading.
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And what we're going to do is we're going to add a few more keynotes to the exterior heading here. So let's just go ahead and hit ENTER. We're going to add an E. Ensure your Caps Lock is on.
E12, and let's call this Steel Rebar per Structural Drawings. And then a tab E to relate back to the heading here.
Let's go ahead and add E13. Tab 8-inch Metal Studs at 16 inches on center. Tab E. E14.
Tab 5/8-inch Gypsum Board. Tab E. And then finally E15,
Tab 3/4-inch Mortar Bed over Sheathing. Tab E. And then let's save. Close Notepad, and let's go back to Revit.
Let's go to the Annotate tab and then click on Tag. Click on Keynote Settings, and what we have to do is reload. And now it will reference the keynotes that we just added.
Now let's call out the rebar in this detail. We'll go to keynote. This time we'll use a User Keynote.
And it doesn't matter really what we select. We can select anything and then we'll reference under exterior Steel Rebar per Structural Drawings. And that goes ahead and adds our keynote.
Now let's go to the plan detail that we've drawn at the window jamb. And let's go ahead and add a few keynotes here. We can keynote by element for one of the items here,
The aluminum mullion. And then the following items we're going to annotate using the User Keynote. So let's do the 5/8-inch Gypsum Board.
You find E14. 5/8-inch Gypsum Board. The text description comes in.
And then the next item will be the 8-inch Metal Studs. Now we have that. We'll add the mortar bed keynote.
Or I should say mortar bed keynote. 3/4-inch Mortar Bed over Sheathing. And then finally we'll have a callout for the stone veneer.
And you'll note that you can't select the repeating detail—one of the limitations of keynotes. We'll go ahead and use E2,
A keynote that was previously assigned. Let's go ahead and clean these up a little bit, fix some of their alignments.
And there we go. Finally, let's fix this keynote. Let's toggle off the crop region here.
And let's go ahead and save our Lesson 2 file. In the next video, we're going to create a PDF of our three detail views that will be used as our midterm submittal.