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Andy Cos-Y-Leon/3 min read

Annotating Elements in Revit Structure: A Step-by-Step Guide

Structural Annotation Checklist

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This Revit tutorial walks through annotating elements in revit structure, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

Hello and welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've finished annotating, placing notations, and identifying elements in our foundation, let's go up and finish annotating or notating our project at Level One.

Let's go to our project browser, double-click on Level 1. Let's zoom in a little bit, and here we have the notation that we placed earlier for our nine-inch concrete slab. But we still have columns that we need to annotate.

So let's zoom in. Now remember, we're not going to place notations on the moment frames or the brace frames because those will be identified in elevations later on. We have a column here.

Let's pick it. Let's right-click on it. Let's select All Instances > Visible in This View, and here it says we have nine in the Properties.

Zoom out, take a look, and as you can see, we have them placed around the perimeter and in the interior of the first-floor element. What we want to do with this—again—we want to give it a type mark so that we can schedule it later on. Let's go to Edit Type in the Properties.

Let's scroll down to Type Mark, and since it's a steel column, we will call this one SC-1. Is it okay? And since we only have the one, that's the only one we will identify in our schedule. Okay, let's zoom in and let's go ahead and tag our column.

Let's go to Tag by Category. Save the project first. Always save.

You don't want to lose any information. We do want a leader on this, and it's already set to the free end. Let's go to Tags.

Let's check our parameters: Structural Columns, Column Tag.

Type Mark as we previously set. Let's get started. Is it okay? Let's find the column.

Pick it. Now, we don't have every column as the same column again because we have moment frames and brace frames. So let's go through and find the columns that we do have that are just vertical load-bearing columns.

Let's find those. Let's pick them and identify them. There we go.

Okay, you go ahead and finish identifying the vertical load-bearing columns. When we come back, we will finish this video. Welcome back.

Now that we've finished identifying our columns, let's talk about a couple of things. The first thing is every office has its own way of identifying elements in a project. Make sure you check with your BIM Manager to understand the office standards so that we can be consistent in performing all of our duties in delivering this project.

We want to look at other areas in our project that we may need to identify such as a stair. It depends upon the elements that we have to identify. Sometimes we need to identify stringers and landings.

In this case, we don't, so we won’t. So let's zoom out, and that takes care of all the annotations for this project. And that is it for this video. We'll see you in the next one.