Annotating Construction Documents

Create a Life Safety Plan by Lines and Symbols

Duplicate 1st Floor Plan 
Rename: 1st Floor Life Safety Plan
Activate First Floor Life Safety Plan
Change Scale to 1:200

Hide all elements except the actual building elements
Turn on Crop Region, adjust it to tight up against the building
Turn off the Crop Region

Input VG or V V to open the Visibility/Graphic Override dialog box
Model Categories tab
Toggle on Casework, Furniture, Furniture Systems
Select Half Tone for each items

Create New Line Pattern

Manage tab > Settings panel > Additional Steeings - Line Patterns

 

Create a new Line pattern: Center 6mm
Dash: 6mm
Space: 2mm
Dash: 2mm
Space: 2mm

Create another Line Pattern: Dash 3mm
Dash: 3mm
Space: 3mm

Create New Line Style

Manage tab > Settings panel > Additional Settings - Line Styles

 

Modify Subcategories - New

Name: Life Safety Diagonal

Create another Line Style

Name: Life Safety Travel Distance

Life Safety Diagonal: 8, Red, Center 6mm
Life Safety Travel Distance: 6, Red, Dash 3mm

Annotate tab > Detail panel > Detail Line
Line Styel panel > Line Style - Life Safety Diagonal
Options bar: Clear Chain

Draw the disgonal lines from Entrance to Entrance, Corner to corner

Options bar: Check Chain

Line Style panel > Line Style - Life Safety Travel Distance
Draw the safety exit lines

Zoom in to the front entrance
Annotate tab > Symbol panel > Symbol
Mode panel > Load Family
Class Library folder - M_Life-Safety-Line-Arrowhead.rfa

Insert arrowhead at the end of each travel lines and outside the door
Press spacebar to rotate the arrowhead

Create a Life Safety Plan - Text

Annotate tab > Text panel > Text
Properties palette - Edit Type - Duplicate

Name: 3mm Arial Narrow
Text Font: Arial
Text Size: 3mm
Width Factor: 0.9
Click Apply

Duplicate another text

Name: 3mm Arial Narrow Italic
Italic: Ö
Click OK

Zoom in to the front entrance

Add text for the 2 entrances

If text is not visible
View Control bar - Show Crop Region
Properties palette - Check Annotation Crop Region

Type Selector - 3mm Arial Narrow Italic
Place the text first, then use the rotate and move control on the text, to position the text on the diagonal line
The text automaticallu masks the line

Tag

Tag identify elements that are listed in schedule
Door and window tags come in automatically

Type of Tag

1. Tag by Category
2. Multi-Category
3. Material

Tag Options

Options bar - Check Leader OR
Properties palette - Check Leader Line

Change the leader to Free End

Select the tag, press spacebar to toggle the orientation

Preload Tag

After the Tag by Category command

Options bar - Tag Loaded

Preload tags:
Area, Door, Revision, Room, Sheet, Structure Beam, Structure Framing, Wall, Window

To load tags are not preload, navigate the Library\ US Metric\ Annotations

Stair and Railing Tags

 

Activate Elevation or Section Plan

Annotate tab > Tag panel > Stair Tread/Riser Number

Select a reference line of a stair to place the number

Tagging in 3D View

Activate a 3D View

Status bar - Unlocked 3D View - Save Orientation and Lock View

Name: From NE Pool Side

Annotate tab > Tag panel > Tag by Category

 

Tagging Multiple Elements

Select the elements
Annotate tab > Tag panel > Tag All Not Tagged

Shift or Ctrl + Select more than 1 tag

Tagged only all the selected elements

Room and Room Tag

Room tag is a special type of tag associated with room element
Room element is important to room tag and schedule

Place a room element in any space bounded by walls or room separation lines
Room Separation Lines allows you to divide an open space into individual room

Walls must be bounded to form a room

To turn off the room, uncheck the Room in the Visibility/Graphic Override dialog box

Add Room and Room Tag

Architrcture tab > Room & Area panel > Tag Room

Click inside the area, no respond
You cannot place a room tag, because a room element is not assigned

Architrcture tab > Room & Area panel > Room

Place the room element inside the lobby area
The room tag come in by default

Change the room number and room name

Repeat the room command

Toggle off the Tag on Placement

Place the room element in the Check-in area
Select the room element

Properties palette - Identity Data - Name: Reception

Architecture tab > Room & Area panel > Tag Room

Tag the new room

Architecture tab > Room & Area panel > Room Separator

Draw room separate lines to separate the breakfast area from the main lobby

Architecture tab > Room & Area panel > Room

Toggle on the Tag on Placement

Change the name to Breakfast Area

Add room elements and room tags to the rest of the rooms

Schedule - View

Schedule extract information from a project and display it in table form
Like doors, windows, walls, rooms and other elements
They gather property information from doors, windows, walls, rooms and other elements

Each schedule is stored as a separate view and can be placed on sheet
Any changes make to the project that affect the schedules are automatically updated in both views and sheets

Creating Door Schedule for 1st & 2nd Floor only

View tab > Create panel > Schedules - Schedule/Quantities

Category: Doors
Name: Door Schedules - 1st & 2nd Floors

Add the following fields:
Mark, Width, Height, Thickness, Frame Type, Frame Material, Fire Rating

Filter by: Mark, is less than or equal to, 232 (last door number of 2nd floor)

Sort by: Mark, Ascending

Modify the Schedule

Insyance Properties - Sorting/Grouping, click Edit

Check the Grand Totals

Add Schedule to Sheet

Project Browse - Sheets (all) - A8.1 - Schedule

Drag & drop the Door Schedule on the sheet