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MTerry

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My company has recently started to use Revit and it is my job to set up the standards. I think this is great but because of my inexperience in setting up anything for Revit I am not sure I am going about it the right way. Setting up our title blocks was a piece of cake but deciding what to do about everything else is a bit more complicated.

Let me give you a little background of my firm; I work for a small audio/video consulting firm. All devices we specify are low voltage but for each device we spec out we need to try to list out at least three manufacturers.

Problems:

1.       What needs to be controlled in the Revit annotation family

a.       Do we just set up a generic annotation family with instant parameters that is controlled by the component?

2.       What needs to be controlled in the Revit component family

a.       How many annotation symbols do we need to set up in a component to make sure the annotation does not overlap another devices annotation? Is there a way to control annotation symbol position in the project?

b.      Do we add a two-dimensional detail view to the component or is that something that is best taken care of in a drafting view of a project?

c.       Is the manufacturer information controlled in the component or is that something that is controlled in the project?

                                                               i.      If manufacturer information is controlled in the component is there a good way to list out multiple manufacturers and have all the manufacturers selected to be listed in the projects equipment schedule?

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First, may I suggest that you do not put any annotations in a component.  This will just lead to a lot of heartburn because annotations embedded in a family are fixed location.  Instead, use keynotes, tags or other annotations added in the project.  Remember, you can tag all elements not tagged in one operation and you can have multiple tag types for the same element.  Using these, you can place all annotations where they are best suited.  Nested shared families can also be tagged as required.

Revit annotations don't control anything, they just report certain element parameters.

Although it can be done, I am also not a proponent of embeded details.  I prefer to add these in detail views, especially if they need to be controlled.  But, sometimes the model element should not be used in plan and / or elevation views and you use symbollic linework instead.

I would have the manufacturer informantion in the family.  You could list alternative manufacturers as a seperate parameter and reported in a seperate column in the schedule... ALT 1, ALT 2 ... << Those could also be just as easily placed in a schedule parameter.

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