You can draw a brand new detail, use element keynotes, and the individual detail components will tag like magic! What does this really mean? You can take this Revit drafting view, duplicate it with detailing, and then just change the things that are different. Those keynotes are attached to the elements they are noting and each object knows it’s keynote value! This makes it very quick and easy to create similar details and maintain consistency across your drawing set. Making a Revit Detail with ComponentsĮverything in this image that’s red is a detail component, from the breaklines to the ACT ceiling section. If you are using keynotes, then you have to use components, because keynotes cannot be attached to detail lines, filled regions, or detail groups. Revit element and material keynotes work like tags, where they are pulling/pushing information from the object that they are keynoting.

You can assign a keynote value to an object either by specifying the note in the type properties or by tagging an “element” keynote and then assigning the value there.

If my object knows the keynote that is assigned to it, all the better for making my detailing task more efficient. So today, I’m going to take this post and talk about detail components (the 2D ones) inside Revit and why you should be using them.įirst of all, I am 100% a keynote person, and not just keynotes in general, but element and material keynotes.

I am a huge fan of loadable components both 3D and 2D.

Revit keynote