Creating General Specs in Revit

[Anonymous]

Hello, 

I am wondering if there a way for create a master for general notes. example: create general notes for concrete or metal fab. etc.. is there a way that you can have one Note that only includes field that are relevant to that project when all specs are loaded in the master?

I also want to create one that sorts by discipline.  I want our Revit Specs to appear as out CAD specs. 

Im not very familiar with Revit yet any help is great 

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Hi Sabrina,

What I have done in the past is have a 'Master Revit File' that contains all the notes and drafting views (standard details).

When I start a new project it won't have the Standard details or Notes loaded in. When we work out what ones we need, what I do is going to the:

Insert Tab > Insert from File drop down > Insert Views from File > Select the Revit file (Master Revit File) and Click Open > Seclect the Views you require and it brings them in perfectly.

This works the best for what I do,

Hope it helps 

[Anonymous]

Hi Alex, 

Just wondering how you went about creating your "master Revit file". I am in the process of setting up our company template more or less from scratch so that I have control over the Standards within the template. 

My goal with these specs is to Generate a smart schedule that allows for categories to appear and disappear as we need them by clicking on a check box. That way everything is already loaded into the template but it is able to become invisible if that spec is not required for a specific project.   I'm just not sure how to set up a parameter that achieves what I am looking for. I have tried creating a yes /no parameter but all I get is a checked check box. 

But I think your "master Revit File" idea might be of some use  as well. I believe my idea may be complicated to set up properly. 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous

We had 2 separate Revit file. One was the .rte (template) file and the other was just a general Revit file which had standard notes and details in it, which we could load into various projects that we wanted.

What sort of Schedules are you looking to create? I think that having all of those things set up in your Master File would be beneficial because on a job to job basis you will still be able to load only those things that are necessary, such as details and notes etc.

With your template I would still recommend setting up your schedules and things so when you start Modelling elements in the schedules will fill themselves out automatically. This is what our list sort of looks like:

Hope you find a solution

Alex

[Anonymous]

Thank you  for your help. I think this is an acceptable solution to my specification issues. The Schedule I was looking at making was basically what you have but for just notes or General specifications in a schedule form. 

But I think this will work just the same or better for what I need. 

When you created your master file for all of your drafting views did you use an already existing Revit template or did you generate this in your own template?  Are all of those drafting view within the same file  or are they all separate files? 

[Anonymous]

It wasn't a template file or anything special, just quite simply a .rvt file, that had all those drafting views in it.

In that file all those views are made up off separate drafting views.

So basically:

2 Files:

1. Template File (That is loaded into everyone's project, and contains all the consistent stuff through out the company such as text and dimension types, schedules etc.)
2. The Master File (Contains all the drafting views and standard details, notes and anything else you might use on a project)

The benefit with this is employees really only have to worry about the master file, if they need a note, or a particular detail, all they have to do is 'Insert views from file' and select 'The master file' and go from there.

Every project is different, so its better to load in what you need, rather than go through a process of deleting and purging what you don't need, its also keeps your project file size down

[kimbD79KU]

The problem with it being a detail view is it does not automatically wrap like a schedule can and schedules suck to edit.  Particularly if you are doing sheet specs.  Is there a way to link a word doc to a schedule some how with Dynamo?

[RobDraw]

Seeing as this thread is a few years old and marked as solved, I would start a new thread for a fresh discussion.