From the course: Revit: Optimize Your BIM Workflow

Adding sheet revisions - Revit Tutorial

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Adding sheet revisions

- [Instructor] As usually we're staying in our 1031 Southeast Madison project 001. And as you work through your BIN workflow with your Revit project, you're going to add revisions to the project. In fact, you can add revision clouds to Revit as well. And what you would normally do is add those to your sheets in your sheet views and Revit, so that people can see the latest revision and what's been changed and the date it was changed. And more importantly, you've then got a revision path, so you know what's going on within that BIN workflow within your Revit project. So we're going to do now, we're going to go to the view tab in Revit, and in the sheet composition panel, there's a revisions icon, just there. So we click on that and that will bring up our sheet issues revisions dialogue box. Now it always gives you a default revisions, so it's number one, and the numbering is numeric, and we've got the date there, so let's change the date. Let's change it to Feb 2020, just for now. Obviously, you'd be a bit more specific if you were working on a real project. And what we're going to do is we're going to put something like grid numbers updated, so that's the name of our revision or description of our revision. And it hasn't been an issued yet, hasn't been issued to anybody, and that information will obviously be changed, and that will change in the title block in the sheet as well. Now you can show the cloud and the tag, or tag and nothing at all. Personally I like to show the cloud and the tag for each revision that I have on the sheet. The could highlights where the revision is, the tag obviously makes sure that you know that it's number one there in the sequence. So I'm going to click on apply, and click on okay. So that now knows that we are at revision one. So what I need to do now is put the cloud on the sheet. So I'm going to zoom in on this top left corner and just pan down a little bit to about there like that. And then I go to annotate here, like so, and there's revision cloud in the detail panel. So I click on revision cloud, and what I can do now is I can draw my revision cloud. Now notice it defaults to rectangular in the draw panel, that's quite handy, so I can click once, and drag my little cloud there. So I'll just say that it's those grid numbers there, and click again like so, all done, and just click on the tick there, done. Now you might get prompted to save at this point, I'm going to say do not save, and again it'll prompt me to set my reminder intervals, I'm just going to cancel that, I'm not going to worry about that at the moment. So click away from your revision cloud now to deactivate it and deselect it, so you can see that that cloud is there. If I just double click on the wheel now, you can see that cloud is obvious and it stands out, that's why I like the cloud to show when I'm putting revisions on my sheets in Revit, because it just stands out, you can't miss it, it's right there, right in that left hand corner. If I just move away from the view port as well and click away from it, you can see it stands out even more because the view port was highlighting in that plan view in the sheet. Now, the lovely thing is as well, in annotate you've got tag by category. So I'm going to come in here now and I'm going to tag my revision cloud, so if I zoom in you can see can see there's my tag there, and I can bring it round, I can place it, click there like so. If I click on move now and drag, I can just drag it out a little bit so it stands out a little bit more like that, hit escape a couple of times, and there you go. There's my revision cloud, and there's my revision number one. Now, the benefit you've got is, if I now go back to revisions in the view tab, and here like so click on issues like that, it grays out, I can't change that, I'll apply it, I'll okay it. So now that revision is still there, like so, but it's been issued. Nobody can edit that particular revision cloud's information in the revisions list. If I un-tick the issued, obviously I can go in and edit it again, but as soon as that tick is there, it's letting you know that it's been issued, if you okay that now and zoom out, and what you'll find is that if you look in your revisions here, it's updated in the title block as well, because you've issued it now, as soon as you hit that little tick box that says issued, it goes in there in your title box. And you can add this information when you create those title block families, those sheet families that I talked about in one of the previous videos in the chapter. I'll just double click on the wheel now to zoom extents, and you can see now in your BIN workflow, you've got an issued sheet in your Revit project, with the revision cloud, with the revision tag, with the revision mark in the title block in the sheet as well.

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