So I'm trying to figure out how Design Review works. And I've figured out a few things.
1. you can add the markups (text, lines, clouds, whatever) in DR and then add notes to that object
2. once you save the dwf and import it back into Revit, it finds the sheets with markups and imports just those sheets back into the model as just the markup lines - each sheet showing up as a different DWF import in Revit.
3. Then you can click on the markups in Revit, see notes that were added in DR by clicking the History button in properties, add notes of your own in Notes and change the status of the markup to For Review, Question, or Done.
up to this point I understand what's going on. Seems very intuitive...although I did notice you CANNOT have the dwfx open in DR while trying to save the Revit file.
So now - you can save the changes back to the dwfx in manage links, but it only picks up the changes to markup status and notes. obviously it's not picking up model changes at this point.
so is it then best to save the changes to the dwf and then re-export? I guess then you have a record of what was picked up, and what wasn't...although re-exporting gets you this as well, if you just re-export...because it exports all of the markups - regardless of the status.
Then, I would assume you just remove the original dwfs in manage links, and when the next set is marked up import that back in?
And is there a way to put these on a workset so you can easily toggle whether they print or not? Or is the best way to do this just to unload them and then reload them after printing?
Thanks!
Cassie
1. you can add the markups (text, lines, clouds, whatever) in DR and then add notes to that object
2. once you save the dwf and import it back into Revit, it finds the sheets with markups and imports just those sheets back into the model as just the markup lines - each sheet showing up as a different DWF import in Revit.
3. Then you can click on the markups in Revit, see notes that were added in DR by clicking the History button in properties, add notes of your own in Notes and change the status of the markup to For Review, Question, or Done.
up to this point I understand what's going on. Seems very intuitive...although I did notice you CANNOT have the dwfx open in DR while trying to save the Revit file.
So now - you can save the changes back to the dwfx in manage links, but it only picks up the changes to markup status and notes. obviously it's not picking up model changes at this point.
so is it then best to save the changes to the dwf and then re-export? I guess then you have a record of what was picked up, and what wasn't...although re-exporting gets you this as well, if you just re-export...because it exports all of the markups - regardless of the status.
Then, I would assume you just remove the original dwfs in manage links, and when the next set is marked up import that back in?
And is there a way to put these on a workset so you can easily toggle whether they print or not? Or is the best way to do this just to unload them and then reload them after printing?
Thanks!
Cassie
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