ConDoc Keynoting

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Author Message Margaret G. Chewning FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: presbspec Post Number: 195 Registered: 01-2003 Posted on Sunday, December 12, 2010 - 07:03 pm:    Hi All, I'm working with a student team from ODU and HU here in Tidewater VA for the 2010 Solar Decathalon competition. They surprised me with a new question this week. They have been instructed that all of the keynoting on their drawings have to be tied to the Specification Section numbers. They were asking how to do that properly. Unfortunately, I and their faculty instructors looked like deer in the headlights. I remember ConDoc (correct term?) from years ago, and attended seminars on it, but never worked on a project that used it. Help us out my friends! These kids have a great design, I'd hate for a mess up on this point in the rules to make them lose points in the competition. Thanks Margaret Chewning Robert W. Johnson Senior Member Username: robert_w_johnson Post Number: 115 Registered: 03-2009 Posted on Sunday, December 12, 2010 - 10:15 pm:    Recommendations on how and examples are included in the National CAD Standard/Uniform Drawing System (NCS/UDS) in Module 7 - Notations. John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA, LEED AP Senior Member Username: bunzick Post Number: 1282 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 08:59 am:    This is also built into Revit. There is a complete library (database) of terms used for keynoting and inserting into Revit families. We have created our own that is shorter (Revit's is something like 5,000 entries) and more tailored to our practice. (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 04:12 pm:    Margaret, check out the e-SPECS keynoting management which may do just what you are looking for. Note - I am with InterSpec (developer of e-SPECS) so may have a bias, but the keynote management was developed in conjunction with a couple off of our strategic customers. www.e-SPECS.com Seamus McGrady Margaret G. Chewning FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: presbspec Post Number: 199 Registered: 01-2003 Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 06:46 pm:    Thanks to all who provided advice to the students. We'll see how their next review goes. M Ralph Liebing, RA, CSI, CDT Senior Member Username: rliebing Post Number: 1232 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Monday, February 21, 2011 - 07:19 am:    Please ensure, Margaret, that the students fully understand that this system is but one option AND is not mandatory unless it is office policy. Often students are taught "systems" as holy grail and are not even informed of valid alternatives and the flexibility of thought that at least tells them they will surely run into variant and numerous other systems. This, I feel, is as valuable, valid and helpful to them as the basic specifications instruction-- another "tool".