Discover the intricacies of using keynote files in a project, including how to add a keynote tag to materials and how to keep things organized. Learn how to define materials, copy and paste keynotes, and troubleshoot any issues that may arise.
Key Insights
- The article provides instructions on how to add a keynote tag to materials in a project, explaining that the terminology used doesn't affect the drawing but helps keep things organized.
- It's also discussed how to define materials using specific designators, such as 'MP-1' for a metal panel and 'GL-1' for clear vision glass. The article suggests using the tab function to further specify each material.
- The content also offers troubleshooting advice, explaining how to resolve issues like extra special characters that may cause errors. It also demonstrates how to reload keynotes and the importance of adding a keynote legend to the project.
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Now that I've completed my keynote file here, we're going to look at another way that we can use this. And so we have a few different materials that we're using throughout the project that we want to use the same designator for that. And so we can use a another category for it so that we can make sure that we're designating everything kind of the same way.
If I were to go in and add a keynote tag to some of these things, what I could do is I can essentially say materials or material. It doesn't really matter what you say here because that's never going to show up on the drawings. It's really just your method of keeping these things organized.
So this project is going to have a metal panel, a couple different metal panel types, right? So I could say MP-1, which will represent the metal panel. So I can say, you know, aluminum composite metal panel. And then I can give it like a color designation in here.
And then I can use tab for material. And so as long as I have the same text here that I have here, I now have a new way of defining my materials here. So I could do, you know, EFIS-1.
And then I could say what I actually want that to be. We can call it the exterior insulation finish system, type one, and then material. And I can do the same thing.
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And, you know, you can always copy and paste on these two. So control C and control V. So you don't have to watch me type all of these things out here. But essentially, I could do the same thing with like glass, right? GL-1, this is, you know, clear vision glass.
And then I could say spandrel glass, but always adding that material after the tab. And this is where a lot of people get hung up, is you're not always going to have it line up exactly like this. And that can be pretty confusing.
And I totally get it. But if you're just not sure, if you look at it like, man, that was a really short tab space, then you can always backspace it and hit TAB again, just to make sure. And Revit will let you know pretty quickly when you reload this back in.
But essentially, it's never a bad thing to go ahead and double check that. So here's just a few materials that I've added. The list doesn't need to be exhaustive, because we're just trying to understand the concept here.
And we'll get into this further in a later class. So I'm going to hit save on this. And then I'll go back into Revit and reload my keynotes.
And you can see there was an issue here. And when you look, I ended up with an extra special character. And so what happened is because I had an extra character in there, I'm now getting an error that I have to resolve.
And it's telling me like, hey, there's not a parent keynote for this. And so when I look at the view, now this R01 ends up just doing its own thing. If I go back to my keynote file, you can see that I have this little mark here.
And so if I go ahead and save again, and reload, then it'll reload it successfully. And now I've got all these keynotes that have been added to our project. Our next step is going to be to actually add a keynote legend, and add a couple keynotes to our project just to kind of make sure we have a few of them in there, and that we understand the concept of adding these keynotes.
