Thanks Gavin. Another excellent tutorial that solves the real issues a Revit user or BIM manager faces daily bases in office. I appreciate your time/effort, and please keep making these useful advance tutorials.

Thank you, Gavin, for another exceptional tutorial that addresses the practical challenges faced by Revit users and BIM managers on a daily basis in the office. I genuinely appreciate the time and effort you put into creating these advanced tutorials that are immensely useful. Your dedication to producing valuable content is commendable, and I encourage you to continue making these tutorials.

This is exceptionally helpful! Was first introduced to Keynotes in 2013, and I dismissed it as "too hard to manage" I cant believe I and all the teams I've worked on have NEVER seen the genius in this! ugh! all those lost hours... Will be building this out going forward.. Thanks SO SO much!

I have been struggling to nail down our keynotes file for MONTHS now - THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Glad to have you back!

Another tip about using EXCEL for keynotes: you can also use "copy and paste" from an Excel file to a txt file. It automatically formats the pasted text as a tab delimited text (always remember to remove the newline at the bottom). Pretty nice since you don't have to close the Excel file to import the txt in Revit, and it's way faster.

If you ever decide to teach in any revit school, let me know, would definitely join the class. You ære an excellent Guru

Excellent tutorial, thanks! As regards Excel conversion to a tab delimited txt, remember that Excel often places an undesired unformatted NEWLINE at the end of the file. Removing that from the tab delimited txt, makes it compatible with REVIT. Hope it helps.

Thanks so much for this amazing video Gavin.😍😍😍😍✌🏻 I really love watching and learning more and more.

Excellent Gavin thank you! could you please throw tutorial about creating family with lookup table?

Thanks for your video. Quite informative and compact.

I didn't even know Revit keynotes were this extensive, now I do.

Thanks Gavin, it's really helped me out!

Clear ,precise ....................................... Awesome

Great Stuff Guru! Thanks

Hi Gavin! Thanks again for the tutorials. This one was very helpful as well to better understand the tool, although I am still struggling to integrate it in my company. They are transitioning from AutoCad and have some standards in place, so my first goal as their BIM Manager was to match those in Revit, but sometimes I wonder if the method they are using is the best or if I should propose a change. For instance for wall finishes they use a code (ex: W01, W02) and a very precise description (ex: Interior wall cladding with "bronze" glass mirror, 6mm thick, from the height of the furniture (0.76m) up to the height of 2.1m, glued on support, including hidden fixing elements, cutting, finishing and joints. Execution of painting scheme, from the floor level to the height of the furniture, in pure white color, with a matte finish, in the necessary coats in order to guarantee a good finish." Plus(!) every wall gets a different color depending on the finishing and that should be also in the legend. The reason behind this: they say at the construction site its easier to identify the different finishes... I have yet to figure out a good way to do this. Do you think Keynotes is the way to go for this situation?

OMG, this is so Worth it to learn, thanks a lot, and greetings from indonesia Gavin ... 👋

as usual excellent tuto

Thanks Man

fantastic! thanks

Very useful video! thanks for posting. It seems you can do the same thing with 'tag by category' by entering the information in the family itself. For system families - like walls - you can add this information within the type properties of the wall itself and create a tag that reads this information when you tag it. Also, in the past I was able to create a furniture schedule similar to the keynote legend used here, simply by adding this information to the family itself and creating a tag that reads that information, then used the schedule to create the legend. As I tagged my furniture the legend would update automatically. I feel like a lot of the things 'keynotes' do I can achieve with 'Tag by Category'. Can you tell me what the difference is between the two? and which would you recommend as best practice and when?

Hi, Gavin. You have the best Revit channel. I am a big fan of keynotes, especially for the automatic filter in sheets. I have recently modelled a steel structure for the first time, and I noticed some elements do not behave like architectural elements in what concerns keynotes - some elements won't allow me to place element keynote. Furthermore, I was not able to place any kenynote (element, material, user) on parabolts. Do you happen to know if this is normal in steel structures or maybe it is just a newbie thing? Cheers!

Thanks Gavin. This was very interesting and very well-structured information on a difficult and somewhat not-sexy, yet critical topic. My question is: Imagine you work with interior design for a “joinery-company” dealing with design of fx bespoke kitchen-cabinets and/or retail-furniture. How would you recommend setting up a Keynote-structure, which makes sense for both designer/architect, CNC production/manufacturing and sale? Finally: Is Revit LT still a thing and if so, does Revit LT support the use of Shared Keynote-files with Revit? - I currently use Rhino 3D & AutoCAD 2D.

Great video, thanks again. I have been mucking around with the Keynote legend and filters to try and create multiple legends based on particular catagories, say for example one for fixtures and one for wall finishes, rather than just the usual filter by sheet which just dumps them all on one list. I wanted to ask if there is a way filter by the chapter codes used in the keynote text file? Thanks again

Hi all, even though this tutorial might be a bit old. I am trying to find a workaround or something alike for updating the existing keynotes from the materials in your library when you have a new keynote list ? Thanks

Thank you ,,

Impressive Coding Methods

Thanks so much.

Welcome back 👌

Hi Gavin. I have found your class very interesting. I usually prefer use Tag instead of Keynote. To solve multi element Tag I use Multi Category Tag. What do you think?

Hi Gavin! Thanks for the video! Are Keynotes less "stable" than tags? In my experience, I find that keynotes tend to "jump" more often and lose their host, especially when tagging/keynoting elements from links. Thanks, mate!

hahahaha I like your winking at 6.38, yes Gavin we know what you mean. This is a serious issue, winking back at you.

Thanks for the video. I typically only use keynoting for sheet notes and not so much for element or material keynoting. Any recommendations/thoughts on when you would use keynoting vs. typical tagging? My firm likes different shapes to delineate different elements being tagged, i.e. plumbing tag is an oval vs. equipment tag is an octagon.

Thanks Gavin, you are great at explaining things! I have followed everything you said and all seems perfect except for my keynote has a number not the key value... any idea what I have done wrong? A

Hi Gavin ! Thank you for this tutorial ! What about the use of pyRevit Keynote Manager ? Seems robust isn't it ?

Great tutorial Gavin - have been thinking about implementing Keynotes into my standard construction details, however I am a little hesitant. As a manufacturer, who would like to share all my construction details with designers, I have been warned about using keynotes. Typically design firms would have their own keynoting structure and I may just cause more pain when they load my drafting views into their project. Any thoughts on this?

Why cant I filter by sheet my keynotes? The Filter by Sheet box is greyed out, in the filter.

cheers

It would be nice to see element keynotes that are driven by an instance parameter.

is there any topic covered abt difference b/w "material take off & schedule"

nice keep going

Nice. For the algorithm

Большое спасибо!!!

How do the smart keynotes work with nested links?

Awesome tutorial as always... laugh at Gavin when he said "dont make it XXX" hahaha... Brain down the drain

I tag drawings by all user keynotes, Can i change all the keynotes to elements keynote for management easily, pls?

HOW CAN I CORRECT THE SPELLING OF THE KEYNOTES? THE SPELLING ARE PLACED IN THE NOTE BLOCK BUT IT DOES NOT RESPECT THEM WHEN GENERATING THE KEYNOTE LEGEND

سso what is the difference between user keynote and noteblock

Ι΄m working as a structural Revit technician for many years and i've never used keynotes, i see them more appropriate for architectural uses, but if anyone is using them in structural drawings let me know, i would like to start using them if they are more efficient than tags.

User keynotes are what I use. As a side note there is no good reason why a user keynote should need a host. What if I want to keynote something that doesn’t function as a host? You guessed it, you use something else for a host and that’s a bunch of garbage. I personally think the way Revit wants to provide everything a host is a flaw and not a feature.