Revit 2022: Revising

Name: Revit 2022: Revising
Author: Patrick Porter

Learn the revision process and Revit revision workflow

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Hello. We are going to take a look at revising elements in your Revit project. And in this particular lesson, we're going to take a look at understanding the revision workflow. Now, before we get started, I'd like you to note that I am currently using Revit LT 2022, and I have opened up the revisioning Revit project from the exercise files. And I'm currently on the A100 1st floor sheet. So once you have that established, I'd like for you to follow along with me. So as you work on any Revit project, change is going to happen. And after you've created your sheets and your views and your drawings, when a change does occur, Revit has tools that allows you to track those changes in the form of revisions. So let's take a look at Revit's revision workflow first so that you have a better understanding of how these tools all work. Taking a look at Revit's revision workflow, the first step is to add or update your Sheet issues/Revisions dialogue box with the revision information. So a project engineer or someone has notified you that we need to revise these drawings. And so we're going to go in and we're gonna preload Revit's dialogue box, the Sheet Issues/Revisions dialogue box with that revision information. Next, we're going to update the Revit project with the change. So if there was a window that needed to be moved, a size that was changed or something of that caliber, that's where you will go in and then update the Revit project with that change. After that, we can draw our revision clouds around the area that has changed in the appropriate view. You can create the revision clouds in the sheet view or we can create it in the model view. Then we're going to assign a revision to each of those clouds that we've just created. And then we're gonna tag the cloud with the appropriate revision number. Following that, we're going to check our revision schedule and our sheets. So we're gonna go to the title block area of our sheets and make sure that the revisions filled out appropriately for that sheet. And lastly, when we're ready, we're going to issue that revision. The issue action is the action of locking that revision so that no more changes can be made to that revision cloud or tag or that revision in the revision schedule. So now that we've seen the revision workflow, let's look at first how we're going to add or update our sheet using the Sheet Issues/Revisions dialogue box. To access these Sheet Issues/Revision dialogue box in Revit, we can get there in one of two ways. We can come over in Revit to the view tab and then come over here in the sheet compositions area and click on revisions. Or we can go to the manage tab and under additional settings, the Sheet Issues/Revisions selection here as well. I'm gonna go ahead and select it here. This is gonna bring up the sheet issues and revisions dialogue box. An overview of this dialogue box. When we first start off, we're gonna have a default revision one. How the revision numbering is going to take place. So you click in here. We have the options of alpha numeric, numeric, or none. The date fill, which is a text fill. You can put in any date that you would like. This date generally is going to be for the date that the revision is going to be issued. The description field, a field that is going to be used to describe the revisions that were made. The issued field when the revision is ready to be issued and locked. And then these additional fields for who was this issued to and who was it issued by? Lastly, over here is the show, whether you want it to show the cloud and tag, whether you just want it to show the tag on revision, or if you don't want it to show neither the cloud or the tag. I'm gonna leave this set for cloud and tag for now. You can add additional revisions by just clicking on the add button. I'm gonna click twice to add two more revisions. Notice that in the first column, there is a sequence column. That is the actual number of revisions that have been created. The revision number can remember be alpha numeric or none but the sequence is gonna be a total count of actual revisions. So right now I have a total count of three revisions and the revision numbering is one, two and three. Let's come over here to the numbering section. Our revisions can be done on a per project basis or per sheet, depending upon your company standards. When you have multiple revisions in this area, to select one you just select on a sequence number and you can move that revision up or down. So notice for revision number one, I can move it down and it is now revision number two. So the revision information kept with it. The revision number though changed to number two. It's gonna move that back up. You can also merge a revision down or in the middle or at the bottom you can merge them up. You can also customize the numbering of revision. Just click in here to take a look at this where you can have it alpha numeric or numeric. If I also click in here for alpha numeric and come down here for the pencil to edit the numbering sequence, we can look at the options. We can take out certain letters if we would like to, we can change where it starts, we can add prefixes and suffixes. Gonna go ahead and cancel out of here and cancel out of this dialogue box as well. Lastly, the arc length is used to determine the overall length of your clouds for each arc throughout your entire project. This is a global setting for all of your clouds. When you're done in here, you can go ahead and just say okay. Thanks for watching this lesson. Join me in the next lesson where we will take a look at creating a revision schedule.

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Course Description

All the elements you add in your Revit projects are subject to some sort of change at any point in time. If you had to manage each change manually, you would spend countless hours just updating your project. Revit has a process, though, that makes this easier. Revit’s revision process assists you in tracking and recording changes appropriately, so the changes are reflected correctly, and the correct revision is assigned to the changed area that is then tagged in all your drawing sheets.

In this course, we will discuss Revit’s revision process. These lessons will first introduce you to the revision workflow. You will learn how to create a new revision schedule to add to a project title block, as well as learn to add clouds and tags to indicate the changes pertaining to each revision. You will discover how make any necessary adjustments to your revision numbering and the process for issuing a revision.

What You'll Learn

Understand the Revit revision workflow for tracking and recording changes
Create a revision schedule to add to a project title block
Add revision tags and clouds to indicate changes for each revision
Adjust revision numbering for your project
Issue a revision through Revit's revision process

Key Takeaways

Elements in a Revit project are subject to change at any point, and managing each change manually would consume large amounts of time.
Revit's revision process helps track and record changes so they are reflected correctly and the correct revision is assigned to the changed area.
A changed area is tagged across all drawing sheets in the project.
The course covers creating a revision schedule, adding revision clouds and tags, adjusting revision numbering, and issuing a revision.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Revit 2022 course cover?

It covers Revit's revision process, including the revision workflow, creating a revision schedule to add to a project title block, adding revision clouds and tags to indicate changes, adjusting revision numbering, and issuing a revision.

What skills will I gain from this course?

The course builds skills in Autodesk Revit, CAD programs, CADwork, plan revision, and revisions, and is relevant to the Autodesk Certified Professional in Revit for Mechanical Design.

How is the course structured?

The course is organized into five lessons: Understanding the Revision Workflow, Creating a Revision Schedule, Adding Revision Tags and Clouds, Revision Numbering, and Issuing a Revision.

Why use Revit's revision process instead of managing changes manually?

Managing each change manually would take countless hours of project updates, whereas Revit's revision process makes tracking and recording changes easier, ensuring changes are reflected correctly and the correct revision is assigned and tagged across all drawing sheets.