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petersmith

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Hi,

I want to place some messages in the drawing (layout-drawing). They are almost the messages about the working on site or handling during the construction. Something like "existing window replace after finishing wall" or "no entrance to exiting building during the construction". The messages about the work/handling on site will be used very often, but the contents are still very different.

Question:Which functions of revit can I to use for placing the messages? And what are the possibilities?

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You can't do this in a sheeted view.  Instead learn to use working views.  We have working views for each plan where we add control notes in Red and control dimensions we need to hold.   Each user has their own view named like "First Floor - user name".

We ask users to only work in sheeted views to add dimensions, tags and text.  We want them to work in the working view when altering the model.

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working view: is this the another term for layout view for the 1st and 2nd floor etc? If we place the tag, dimonsions and text in the sheeted views, what have we to do in the working views?

I did some research of this item (working views), but it is not clear for me. Can I consider the sequence of working views just like underneath sechme?

upper layer: sheeted view (print view)2nd layer: working views (what do I have to do in the view?)3rd layer: layout view (with tag, dimensioen and text)4th layer: model of the building

Are the working views intended just for bigger projects or also for small-scale projects?

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petersmith,

You are over-complicating this.  There is nothing formal here and don't start thinking layers of plans.  My term - "sheeted view" - a view that is placed on a sheet:  "working view" - just a view that is not placed on a sheet so the "owner" can mess with it all he wants. << Maybe you call that "layout view".

As I said - a working view can be marked up as much as the user wants and doesn't have to be "corrected".  The owner controls it as he needs to work on the model.    You can have as many views as you need.   Most of our users use their own working plan view so they don't have conflicts with other users.  We don't do this much with other views but you can.

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