Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2011: No Experience Required

Chapter 5. Dimensioning and Annotating

The focus of this chapter is to give you the ability to dimension and annotate a model. After the novelty of having a really cool model in 3D wears off, you need to buckle down and produce some bid documents. This is where Revit must prove its functionality. You should ask yourself, "Can Revit produce drawings consistent with what is acceptable to national standards, and more importantly, my company's standards? And if so, how do I get to this point?" These are the questions the owners and managers will ask you. (If you are, in fact, an owner or a manager, I suppose you can still just ask yourself these questions.)

• Dimensioning

• Using dimensions as a layout tool

• Placing text and annotations

Dimensioning

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