Scheduling tags and symbols

[Anonymous]

Hello

I have been asked to do "Data Extraction" similar to what AutoCAD can do.  We are trying to identify what tags and symbols are on which views, in a schedule format.

Can That be done in Revit 2016?

Is there an Add-On for that?

Most of the symbols and tags are simple text based families.  I'm not talking about truly parametric tags.

Thank You

Nardo

[ToanDN]

Use Note Block to schedule Generic Annotation symbols.

[Anonymous]

ToanDN

Thanks

How do I add the Sheet Number parameter to the schedule?  I added it as a Text and then Data parameter; but that didn't work.  That would be a very helpful bit of information.

Thanks

Nardo

[ToanDN]

I don't think you can incorporate the Sheet information to the symbols, and subsequently, to the schedule automatically.  heck you can't even do that to anything except views. 

Edit the symbol families and add a text parameter Sheet No then you can select them in a View on a Sheet and enter the information.  Very labor intensive.

[loboarch]

Is there a reason the information is part of a symbol/annotation instead of a model element?  Revit really wants to keep track of data on model elements rather than 2d annotation elements.

[Anonymous]

The project is being detailed in AutoCAD.  The details are going through to shop drawings and the assembly drawings.  The detail tags are for the AutoCAD details.  So they are Dummy detail tags.  There are a few hundred of these details.  So including that many DWG files within the Revit file is not good.  So those pages of details are staying in AutoCAD only. 

It would be helpful to have a system to track the location of those details.  A schedule would do nicely. 

Is this something that Dynamo can do?

I guess I need to add interoperability for such things between Revit and AutoCAD to the Revit Wish List.

[ToanDN]

I see.

Create dummy drafting views place on dummy sheets.  Label them to match your CAD details.  Now you can schedule them views and sheets, you can even reference to them from other views in Revit using Reference Other view method.

[loboarch]

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@ToanDN wrote:

I see.

Create dummy drafting views place on dummy sheets.  Label them to match your CAD details.  Now you can schedule them views and sheets, you can even reference to them from other views in Revit using Reference Other view method.

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This was going to be my suggestion as well.

[Anonymous]

That's a lot of sheets and views to make. We currently have about 340 such details.  Most details are on a sheet of their own.  That volume of work is what we are attempting to avoid.

[ToanDN]

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@Anonymous wrote:

That's a lot of sheets and views to make. We currently have about 340 such details.  Most details are on a sheet of their own.  That volume of work is what we are attempting to avoid.

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I can guarantee that it is less work than using generic annotation symbols to ID them.  1 hour 19 minutes top.  And you can transfer them sheets and views to other projects as well.

[Anonymous]

you can't schedule the tags it self , but tags read data saved in the 3d objects
these data can be schedules then exported to .txt file which can easily imported in execl

kindly, assign this as accepted solution if it solve your problem