Adding tagging and reinforcing

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PRESENTER: Now that we've seen Revit will assign numbers

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and locations to reinforcing, let's

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take a look at how that information is annotated

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that we folks know what they're bidding on and ultimately

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building.

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The objective of this video is to start

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thinking about how we can automatically and manually tag

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our Rebar, and jump into Revit.

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I'm going to open my Medical Center parking garage 02.

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Or if you had the old model open, you can just keep going.

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You can use any model you want.

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So now go down to level three this time, got plenty of levels

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to work with.

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Select your slab right here.

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Notice and reinforcement, we can click area.

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Go ahead and click that.

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For the partition, let's change that to level 3 slab,

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and we'll keep the default for our layout rule, our layers,

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tops, and bottoms.

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On the draw panel, click the pick lines button right here.

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Hover over this top line, hit your Tab key twice.

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Once you've tabbed down to it twice, pick it.

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Noticed that it's going to select all of our edges.

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Hit escape a couple of times.

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Let's click our finish edit mode button.

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OK, hit Escape a few times again.

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Take a look at a couple of things.

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One thing it did is it automatically

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tag the entire area reinforcement.

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Let's Zoom in on this tag.

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It says number four at one foot top each way.

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That was the default for our area reinforcing.

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Go ahead and select that tag.

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Click Edit family, Rebar System Layer Summary.

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This is simply a tag that we use to annotate our reinforcing.

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Used to be, you had to type that in.

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We don't do that anymore.

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Click on this Rebar system layer summary tag and click Edit

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label, and it's essentially a parameter layer summary.

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Hit cancel here.

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We can close out of this file by clicking the X right here.

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I don't want to do anything with it.

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I just wanted to show you how it works.

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Now, don't save any changes to it.

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Let's go to this section over here.

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Let's Zoom in on level 3, so reinforcing is very thin.

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Let's go up to level 3.

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I'm going to come over this way, and I'm

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going to add another section.

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So let's click on the section button.

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We'll put a section right through here.

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Hit escape a few times, let's open that section up.

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Notice that we have our Rebar on level 3.

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What I want to do this time though

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is I want to select this crop region.

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I wanna drag this down.

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I want to drag this up.

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This time, I want to make the entire scale

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Let's set the detail level to fine.

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Now we have some Rebar.

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Let's make a new generic tag.

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So if you go to the File tab, let's go now new,

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let's go to annotation symbol.

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You may or may not be in the directory I am in, so click

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here and look in dropdown.

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I'm going to go to my English imperial.

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But if you go to family templates,

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you can choose whatever region.

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You can choose whatever region you're in.

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I'll go English imperial.

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I go to annotations.

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I'm going to grab generic tag, then I'll click OK.

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The first thing you want to do is get rid of this note.

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Select it, hit delete.

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Now, next thing we do is we go to family category

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and parameters.

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I want to scroll on to structural Rebar tags.

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I don't want to rotate this with the component.

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I want to click OK.

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Now that we've done that, go to the Create tab.

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Click the label icon, and we'll line center.

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Pick a spot right on the bull's eye.

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Now that we selected structural Rebar tags

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as our family category and parameters,

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noticed that all of our available fields

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are going to be dealing with structural reinforcing.

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I want to scroll down till I find Rebar number.

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Then I want to find partition.

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Click partition, and then click the little green add button.

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I'm OK if these are on the same line.

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As a matter of fact for my suffix,

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I'm going to type in a space, a hyphen, and a space.

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So the Rebar space partition.

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Click Apply.

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Click OK.

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Hit the Save button.

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I call it my Rebar tag, and click Save.

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Going to load that into my project.

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Let we go to this section right here.

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Notice that tag is already selected.

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So if I hover over this reinforcing, check it out,

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there's my tag.

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Instead of attached end, I'm going to select free hand.

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I'm going to pick a spot like right

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about here, to here, to here.

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So it's number 47 level 3 slab.

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So there you go, no dumb text here.

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Everything we are doing is smart.