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Non Printable Text, Lines, Workset or Phase, markups, task list.

Non Printable Text, Lines, Workset or Phase, markups, task list.

Can we have a non printable Text.

 

Many times we need a reference text to be available to explain something, or just to jot down your thought while working to come back to resolve it..

 

Some dialog or text box , or like a markup on all types of views which is not printable but purely for people working on the file.

This will help so much while collaborating as well as people wont forget pending things.

 

Most of the time the brilliant idea gets lost cause it was not written anywhere..

 

While doing this we can also have  a list of these "to do things" ,

where we can assign task to users and shortcut to go

to that particular location to work on..

 

I am know am asking too much, kind of combination of PDF markups, Internet hyperlinks, Microsoft office task list, Schedule and property

of AutoCAD Defpoint layer which doesn't get printed..

69 Comments
rharness
Participant

We would just like a note for drawing development that could be toggled on an off (like unreferenced sections). This would allow the designer to put in notes to remind us of possible conflicts, the code a detail was developed or just a reminder that something has to be done. We would like to have this print on check sets but turn off on any prints send out of the office. Currently we use red notes for this that are deleted or hidden prior to plot.

 

Please no DEFPOINTS.

GaryHampson_DGL
Community Visitor

A non plotting type of text would be so helpful.  Maybe even a non plotting bullet point that expands into a text window to save space on the page.  Documenting changes on the page would prevent unnecessary rework and help to answer questions that arise from changes to the model that were made months ago.  It would be nice to have a name, date and short description associated with changes that you know will be questioned later on in the life of the project.

GaryHampson_DGL
Community Visitor

A non plotting type of text would be so helpful.  Maybe even a non plotting bullet point that expands into a text window to save space on the page.  With something tiny like a bullet point you can place it at the source instead of reading through a long list of all the accumulated comments on a starting view or drafting view.  It would be nice to have a name, date and short description associated with changes that you know will be questioned later on in the life of the project.  

ehsan_ghassemlou
Contributor

I think team members should be able to provide notes and markups on sheets (each member can have their own colours) which are not shown on prints and pdfs.

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ipselute
Advisor

Yeah, something like BlueBeam. Live remote collaboration. Remote drawing checks and markups. Live drawing patching for the construction site.

ehsan_ghassemlou
Contributor
Yeseven for an engineering office itself by which drawings are produced
nihalmehdi
Contributor

it would be helpful.

 

CADmgrMike
Collaborator

We need to have a blocked out area on a sheet for engineer stamp, scale bar, etc, that need to be in specific locations per client standards.

If there's a way to place those on a sheet in an exact location without snapping to something, I would like to know how.

wr.marshall
Advisor

@kimberly.fuhrman please combine Revit Sticky Note - Autodesk Community into this thread

External Refrence: note to self tool (On AUGI) 

darrell
Explorer

@VMDO-ADMIN  Totally agree!! And I think that the global Autodesk / Revit community far in excess of "100 Votes" are also wishing that this feature had been included in one of the updates, especially considering other software had the capability generations ago. Please!!

john.risi
Observer

Have a set of text notes that can be set to a certain color for marking up sheets for other team members to pick up during the redlining process of a project. These notes would either never print or be able to be put onto a workset that never prints. This could also be accompanied by revision clouds that would also not print. All similar to the NOPLOT later in AutoCAD.

I think this would allow for PMs/PAs to markup sheets live in Revit for staff to pick up redlines.

wr.marshall
Advisor

See this idea: Notes for team members - Autodesk Community

 

If feel they the same ask @kimberly.fuhrman to combine your idea

wr.marshall
Advisor
kkarmilovich
Observer

Create a text type designers can put there internal notes on that will never print. 

wr.marshall
Advisor
kimberly.fuhrman
Autodesk

@wr.marshall  Thank you!

@kkarmilovich  Thank you for your submission! I will combine this with the above suggestion.

 

-Kimberly

ehsan_ghassemlou
Contributor

@kimberly.fuhrman 

Thank you

Best,

Ehsan Ghassemlou

tuomas.klaus
Observer

A way to make non-printing text for commenting drawings and views would be nice. For example in family editor it would be a convenient way to document the inner workings of a family and in complex projects it could be used to explain the logic of the model. 

 

The explanation about Revit being a "true bim program no layers hur dur" does not really hold water. For example it is essential for programmers to write comments with their code and construction documentation is not essentially different. Using different workarounds found in the internet is not sustainable as they would require a commenting feature as well.

 

Just simple property that works like visibility parameter would cut it so you could have tags that are visible but not printing and vice versa. Then you would for example tag an object with the actual tag showing in picture but also all the include any comments in easily readable format or write a bunch of comments in text for a colleague to follow in case there is something that is not finished or needs to be altered.

wr.marshall
Advisor

Adding this comment as a user.  Really agree adding non-plot text notes would be very beneficial.  This is going to be more than necessary going forward for our team as Autodesk still to this day has yet to figure out a way to create electrical systems for 240/120V 3PH, 4W systems with Hi-Leg Deltas.  However, extremely non-ideal, the plan is to have a work around using text boxes and opaque text overlap inside the panel schedules (would require manual load additions).  With that being said, a non-plot text note would be more than ideal to help so that future individuals working in the project know the situation and the manual work involved with loading for the individual panels.  

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