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Derek Cutsinger/1 min read

Design Tips: Using Annotations and Rev Clouds for Reminders in Your Design Process

RFI Workflow

1

Contractor Submits Question

Document the issue with photos and references.

2

Designer Reviews

Architect and consultants weigh in.

3

Issue Response

Written answer with revised drawings if needed.

4

Track Implementation

Verify the answer was followed in the field.

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This tutorial walks through design tips: using annotations and rev clouds for reminders in your design process, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

All right, now in this case, it's not going to work. Nothing is ever that easy. We will come back to these.

So here's what I'm going to do to remind myself—I like to do this when I'm designing and don’t want to forget to do certain things. I'll just go to Annotate > Revision Cloud. I'm going to put a little cloud around here to remind myself to come back to this later.

Let's see if I can connect this one. Okay, and make everything one inch. All right, let's continue to the next line.

All right, now in one fell swoop, as long as you don't select the branch line, you should be all right. Deselect the sprinkler. Set it to one inch.

Wonderful. I grabbed those sprinklers there. That's okay, because we're going to deselect all of them from the filter.

And here, for the sake of expediency, we'll make a special case. Every now and then you can have the outlet on both sides. We try to avoid it, but let's say we're on a time crunch and we have to get this out the door.

We'll leave it as is.