General notes on a sheet

[Anonymous]

When putting general notes on a sheet i am currently copying and pasting from word into a text box on the sheet and manually cutting / pasting into different text boxes to create columns. This is pretty cumbersome to do, does anyone else have any solutions?

This is something i have googled before and have never found a decent solution to the problem. Using schedules like a lot of people suggest online gets close but you cant edit them properly due to all the text being entered in a cell in the spreadsheet view.

[ryan.duell]

Have you looked at Note Block schedules at all?  That might provide an additional option:

https://www.revitforum.org/architecture-general-revit-questions/12990-schedules-general-notes.html

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/EN...

Thanks,

[loboarch · Accepted solution]

While there has been some enhancements made to text editing in Revit last release, there is no ability to easily create columns.

Cutting and pasting from Word might be the easiest route to go as it stands right now. With large amounts of text, it might be slightly easier to cut and paste as one large block from word into Revit and then copy that text block into columns and edit out the extra text from each copy. At least then you are switching applications only once and then editing all in Revit, Rather than going back a fourth between the 2.

[Anonymous]

Yeah i have looked at these before too, but as the general notes tend to change from job to job its difficult to edit using the schedules spreadsheet view

[MarkK_EEA]

Regarding Note Blocks: let's not reinvent the wheel. We just need a block of text that can have columns. Plus you cannot spellcheck schedules, which is a-whole-nother issue. Revit is not AutoCAD, but I am still going to say it:

MTEXT

I know that employees can not discuss future features, but just give a wink or a nudge or something. 2017 provided some hope, but then 2018 doesn't seem to have made any forward movement regarding text editing.

[tomclements]

Excel?

[Sahay_R]

I am a proud member of the Note Block schedule for General Notes team. It allows you to set up keys and columns. What we have is a basic structure which can be dragged onto a sheet, to which details can be added as conditions demand.

As far as spellcheck goes, well, type very very carefully!

[MarkK_EEA]

Tom,

That is actually a great point. Excel, which I can get as part of Office 365 for $70/year, provides spellchecking of tables. Revit, which is $2,000/year standalone, does not provide spellchecking of tables.

Yes, there are workarounds, but the issue is the basic functionality being excluded from a software package for which any given firm is spending upwards of tens of thousands of dollars on.

Plus having to switch between applications to address this lack of basic functionality cost me more time in lost productivity. Spellchecking is a common and repetitive task which should be given high priority for implementation.

@loboarch@ryan.duell

[ebussey]

In what way is an incredibly clunky and inefficient work around a solution to something?  A better "solution" it to do the general notes in acad and link it into a drafting view.  Mine is a crappy solution too, but at least you have some control over the notes. 

[ToanDN]

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@ebussey wrote:

In what way is an incredibly clunky and inefficient work around a solution to something?  A better "solution" it to do the general notes in acad and link it into a drafting view.  Mine is a crappy solution too, but at least you have some control over the notes. 

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I use that approach for Code tables:  Datalink Excel spreadsheet to AutoCAD table, Link AutoCAD table to Revit Legend view.  The only problem is the TTF font of the CAD file looks like they are printed on toilet paper in Revit.  SHX fonts are okay but we don't use them.

[ben]

I was searching for the same thing and came across this YouTube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRqEMxkY0VE

[Charles.Ball]

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@Sahay_R wrote:

As far as spellcheck goes, well, type very very carefully!

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That is thoroughly insulting. 

[jon]

...and totally not applicable to architects.