Figure 1 This might sound like a daunting task. However, for our revisions to be visible on Sheets, we need to create a schedule. That, and it’s never too late to teach an old dog new tricks. As we know, Revit has a cool feature called Sheet Issues/Revisions (View tab > Sheet Composition panel > Revisions) which helps us monitor all our revisions in the project (see figure 1). So I guess the moral of the story is never be afraid to share what you know. All I did find out was that it was a feature as far back as Revit 2014. I thanked the attendee for sharing and let them know they had just blown my mind.Īfter the Lunch & Learn, I went back to see when this feature came into being, and I couldn’t find out. When you select this button you have access to all the revision in the project, and you simply but a check beside the one(s) you wish to appear on the sheet. Each 'Seq.' property will export as a TRUE or FALSE value within Excel. There under Identity Data is something called “Revisions on Sheet” with an Edit… button. Select the Revisions to be included within the Link Definition. Basically, while you are in the view of the sheet you wish to have the revision appear on, with nothing selected, you scroll down the properties of the view (in the properties palette). They then processed to explain how it is done. Just as I’m finishing my demo to go along with my explanation, someone very quietly says “excuse me, but there is a way to do that actually”. This process adds data to tables in title. So I begin to explain that there isn’t really a good way to do that and that you need to just draw a small cloud off the side of the sheet (so it doesn't print) and then the revision will appear on the sheet. The Revisions tool helps you track changes to a view and use cloud-shaped tags to show their location and number. Now I have been working with Revit since 2008, and I always thought this process was a bit of a pain because you really couldn’t do it without a workaround…the old cloud on the side of the sheet trick. I got the question of how do you get a revision to show up in the revision schedule without having to draw a cloud. Adding a Revision Schedule Revit allows you to add revision clouds and tags to sheets for tracking changes in the document set. I was talking about put revision on sheets in Revit at the time of my mind being blown.

The other day while doing a Lunch & Learn session one of the attendees told me something I never knew and it blew my mind. No matter how much you use Revit or even how long you have been using it there is always something new to learn. Today we have another post from Carl Storms one our top Application Experts here at IMAGINiT:

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