Setup styles for design review annotations (3:33 min)

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In this lesson, we're gonna look at how you can create Annotation specifically for the Design Review Process.

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As I'm going through the review process, there's gonna be points where I want to make a comment or I want to ask a question,

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or I may want to highlight a specific area just to get some clarification.

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Now one of the great things about doing model review inside of Revit, I can use the tools I'm used to for documentation.

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And I can tweak them a little bit and use them as part of the model review process.

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So, I'm gonna go ahead and switch to one of my Review Floor Plans. And I'm just gonna zoom in on this corridor right here.

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And let's say I have a question about some of these doors.

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I want to highlight that they need to check them for their fire rating.

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So I could go ahead and create a regular piece of text.

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But this might get lost as I start adding other notes, dimensions and so forth.

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So, I'm going to create a new text type.

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I'm going to click on the "Edit Type" button.

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And I'm going to duplicate this Text Type, and I'm going to call it "Review Note".

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I'm gonna click “OK”. And the big difference between this Text Type and any other text type is that it's gonna be color coded.

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So, I'm gonna set this equal to Red and I'm going to click "OK".

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So now I can insert my piece of text and I can note Check Door Fire-rating.

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And I can add my leaders and I can highlight the doors that I want to be checked.

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And again, because it's indicated in red, it's different from our regular annotation text.

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So it's going to show up visually on the screen as a different type of element.

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I could do the same thing with dimension.

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So, let's say I want to verify the width of this corridor or I want to ask a question to make sure that we have enough with per our egress.

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So, I'm gonna click on Align Dimensions and I'm going to click Edit Type,

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and I'm going to duplicate this type, and I'm going to call this Review Dims.

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And I'll scroll down and again, I'm gonna keep the settings the same, but I want to change the color to be red.

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So now I can place this dimension and any of these dimensions that I see probably want to be verified.

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Now one of the concerns with adding this type of review text and annotation into the model is that it may end up getting printed.

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Now having specific review plans is a good way to prevent them from happening, because these views won't go onto a sheet.

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Now before a major milestone, what I could do is I could highlight the text in a review view,

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if I want to be double sure that it doesn't get onto a view that it shouldn't.

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And I can use the Select All instances in entire project, so I can select that, it will tell me how many instances there are.

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And then once I have them all selected, I could just delete them.

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So, this would be a very safe way to get rid of all of review annotation.

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You want to make sure that you have either address those issues or you have a copy of it somewhere.

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Alright, now it's your turn.

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First, download the sample file for this course, then create some text note and dimension types specifically for the Design Review Process.

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Review the first floor plan and add notes and dimensions using these styles.