

Within our 5 types, there are essentially 2 main groups, we could think of this as maybe different frame types, or maybe fire ratings, etc. Let’s take a door family that has 5 different types. The benefits of why we would do this become clear if we look at an example.

However, it is able to reference an external. The main way to think of a keynote is as a ‘tag’. This is very useful for turning typically written out notes or even something that may be tagged from an object, into a keynote and keeping that text easily coordinated across multiple different types. The main way is to keynote general notes across drawings. A Different Useīecause most offices don’t use the CSI specification tagging style, another way to use keynotes has emerged. While useful for keeping things coordinated to your specifications, this is something that takes some getting used to, and many offices prefer to instead use long form text notations which tend to make the drawings easier to understand. There are several major offices that have this as the standard way to annotate drawings… every single item in Revit gets a specification tag and there are virtually no text annotations on the drawings besides the CSI number. The intended use of keynotes is to keynote an item in Revit with the CSI Spec section corresponding to your specifications and therefore using the specifications more than drawing annotations. To be even more specific, we are tagging an object per a keynote that is referencing an external file. For this page, we will say “keynote” an object and this essentially means “tag” an object with the ‘keynote’.

Keynotes are essentially a tag that references an external file. Keynotes are a great tool in Revit, and can be used for much more than their intended use.
