Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
The same annotation families that are used in your model components can
also be loaded into your template for creating legends. Legend components
are limited in their placement options, so it may be easier to use annotation
symbols; however, this method also results in having numerous annotation
families loaded into your project that are there only for the legend view.
If you use a generic tag for plan notes, it should be loaded into your
template. If you use the keynoting feature within Revit, you should have a
keynote tag loaded as well as a keynote data file location defined. You access
the Keynoting settings by clicking the small arrow on the Tags panel of the
Annotate tab. In this dialog box, you can browse to the keynote data file to
beusedandsetthepathoptions.Youcanalsodefinethenumberingmethod
to either display the specification section number and text from the data file
orusetheBySheetoption,whichnumbersthenotessequentiallyastheyare
placed. Make sure to assign the appropriate leader for each loaded tag (and
eachtag'stype)intheprojecttemplatesoyourusersdon'thavetodoitlater.
Component Families
The types of component families that you load into your project template
really depend on the discipline for which you are creating the template.
If your template is used for a single MEP discipline, there is no need for
components that are used by other disciplines, unless you use those types of
components regularly in your projects.
Too Much of a Good Thing
It may be tempting to load your entire component library into your
project template so that you would never have to pause what you are
doing to load a family. Another reason may be so that you are certain
the proper content is loaded. Although this may seem logical, with
proper training on how to load families, it is not really necessary.
Having an entire library of components in your template will greatly
increase the size of the file and will result in every one of your projects
starting at that size, not to mention that most of that content will be
unused.
