Adding sheet revisions - Revit Tutorial

- [Lecturer] We're staying in our new commercial building final.RVT file. As we work through our industrialized construction workflow, we want to make sure that people are aware of the link to Revit models that are coming in as part of this workflow. Up until now, all we've got are our two restrooms. Remember we created those as separate little Revit models. They were created by somebody else. They were linked into our main host Revit project, which is what we're looking at now. Our new commercial building final.RVT. Now I'm in the sheet A100 level one as you can see there in the project browser. Make sure you are in that sheet view as well, A100 level one. What we need to do is communicate revisions as we go step by step. So ideally in this sheet, I want to be able to tell whoever's working on the project, when we issue these sheets, that the restrooms have been added to our project. Now, if you look at the sheet, you can see here if I zoom in, revision, description, date. That's our revision list there. I'll just double click on the wheel to zoom extents again. I'm going to go to the view tab now on the ribbon at the top in Revit. And I'm going to go to revisions in sheet composition. And this allows us to add our sheet issues and revisions to our project. Now you can `see, it's fairly simple. We've got sequence one, revision number one. I can change that to alphanumeric. It can be revision A if I want it to be, I'll just stay with numeric number one. I'm going to put the date in there as well. So let's type in the date. I'll just put something like APR for April and then 2020, like that. Description of the revision, I'm going to put in, there is restrooms added. I'm being very simplistic here, you'll notice as well. I'm not going to issue it. I'm not going to tick it or anything. And I'm not going to click on add or anything like that. It's all ready to go. Now, the only thing I might change there is my arc length to make it a little bit bigger. Let's change that to say 30. And I'll apply that, and I'll okay that. Now I need to add my rev cloud because that particular revision in that list was set up as cloud and tag. I'll just jump back into the dialogue. It was that one at the end, the default is cloud and tag. So I had a revision cloud and I tag it as well. So I'll just okay that. So now I go back to annotate here in the ribbon and select revision cloud. And using the rectangle tool in the drawer panel, I just click, drag my revision cloud around the restrooms and click again. There it is there, like so. Click on the green tech like that, and it's finished. There's my rev cloud. And if I zoom in now, revision one, restrooms added, April, 2020. So that's been added like so. And what I can also do now. So if I just hit escape a couple of times and go to tag by category like that, and highlight this and click, and hit escape a couple of times, you can just see there, there's my little tag there. So if I click on there, I might add a leader to that. And what I might do is just pop that out a bit like so, and there's my leader there. And then if I move this up a bit, it should allow me to tweak things a little bit as well. It's not perfect, it's not the greatest tag in the world, it's just the default one. But what I can do there is I can quite happily remove that. If I want to tag it again with a leader, I just go, tag by category, switch the leader on first. There we go, like that. It's very quick and easy. And there's my revision number one. So you can see now we're at revision number one, restrooms have been added. Double click on the wheel to zoom extents, restrooms have been added there as well like so. So I'll just double click on the wheel again to zoom extents. If I now go back to my view tab on the ribbon and go to revisions, that has all been added to the sheet now, okay. So everything's been done. So what I can do now is add another revision. So as soon as I do that, there's revision two ready to go. What you'd also assume is if I click here on issued, like that, apply that and okay it. What you'll notice is revision one is now issued. It's all there and so on. But I can't edit revision one anymore because it's been issued. If I go there, you'll notice I click down one, it's grayed out. So as soon as you hit that tick box and it's been issued and you know those drawings have gone out, you can tick it. If I untick it, I can edit it again. But ideally once you've issued all the drawings, the sheets, the details, et cetera, on those sheets from Revit, you want to tick that box. So I'll okay that now. And I know that the next revision I add would be revision two, and revision three, and so on. And it's really good when you're working with industrialized construction because what you want to do there is if you've got these linked Revit models coming in, you want to make sure that people are fully aware of what's going in and what isn't. So we now know that the restrooms have been added. Whilst that's not a very descriptive sort of text box entry for a revision, it's in there and it's on the sheet. The next step would be perhaps some more linked Revit models that might be going into other room areas, perhaps in our overall host Revit project.