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General Notes-NCS

Over the last couple of years I've been seeing a misunderstanding of the use of General notes. I refer to the US National CAD Standard (NCS) for how to use General Notes. In the NCS, General Notes are categorized to provide clear and organized information across different aspects of a project. Here are the main types of general notes:

General Notes:These notes apply to the entire project and are relevant to all disciplines and sheets within the drawing set. The purpose of these General Notes is to include general instructions, guidelines, and requirements that are applicable to the entire project.

Jul

Reference Keynotes

Basically NCS Reference Keynotes is the serious big brother to Sheet keynotes. While Sheet Keynotes are like friendly post-it notes on your drawing Reference Keynotes are the scholarly footnotes of your drawing. Reference keynotes are rooted in the specifications (those hefty documents that architects and engineers love to go to sleep to, I mean pore over).

May

E-Transmit

One of the earliest Revit Add-in's I've ever used has been E-Transmit. I say add-in because it still shows up on the Add-In tab, even though it installs with all current versions of Revit it was initially something you had in to install separately.

For years I've just used it to gather all the files of the project to be able to cleanly send my model to the other designers(engineers) of the project or the client in some cases.

Apr

Light Well Part two

To Supplement my Light Well blog I created a video where i've gone through the process.

I would have said short video, but it is a little over 10 minutes long and that is only because I edited the heck out of video. cutting some part out and sped up some of that parts, otherwise it was closer to 30 minutes.

Apr

Survey Issue

Yesterday, I had an issue with a survey drawing that I got from an owner. The PDF that the owner gave me showed contour on the site. But when I opened up the Autocad file instead of seeing the contours all I saw was a bunch of dots.

Apr

Managing Worksets in linked Models

There are a two of ways to manage the Worksets of linked models. The first is the official Autodesk method the second is kind of a hack that worked before the official method came about.

First method

From the link manger there is a button called Manage Worksets that highlights when you select one of the Revit links. From this button the Manage Workset menu of the linked file comes up and you can see all of the Worksets of the linked model.

Apr

Light Well's in Revit

Over the years that I've been using Revit I've detailed light wells Revit. These are had usually been windows that have windows on the exterior of the building that have wider openings on the inside of the building. This is usually done in a double wall, so I'm only talking about ten to eighteen inches in thickness. In most cases these light wells were in stair wells to bring more light into the dark space of the stair well.

Mar

Setting up a Revit Site Model-Commentary

Setting up a site model needs to be setup as soon as you receive a Site Survey. Now that I'm back to working on Revit projects this is a subject that I've been researching for the last couple of weeks, to be able to write a proper process for the firm I work for.

Feb

Key Plan Detail Component

It been awhile since I've posted anything but I had created this video about Key Plan's and I thought I would post this on this blog.

Key plan are an orientation devices to understand where you are in the building. Over the years I used several different methods for show a keyplan of sheets in Revit. I've used live views so that it changes when the plan changes, I've used Revit Legends, but the best method I've found is to use a detail component.

Nov

AU 2020 Digital Day 1

AU 2020 Digital Day 1 started with me checking out a 30 minute virtual session of Using Revit to Design for Social Distancing: New Tools and How to Use Them this was a good session that discussed the People Flow toolkit. This presentation explained how this tool pushes the Revit travel path tool more.

Then can the AU General session and the AEC keynote. It was interesting to watch these sessions live with some of my co-workers.