Revit and MasterFormat

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Author Message David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 914 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 01:10 pm:    My CAD Manager pointed out to me yesterday that AutoCAD's Revit 2008 keynoting system has MasterFormat 1995 instead of 2004! I am currently working with him to convert the keynotes to MF '04. Christopher Borcsok Senior Member Username: ckb Post Number: 17 Registered: 06-2013 Posted on Wednesday, December 04, 2013 - 11:49 pm:    Not being a Revit person myself, but seeing it through the eyes of one CAD operator in my office who is doing Revit on a couple of projects, what is the idea behind this feature? He doesn't know MasterFormat but does know Revit, whereas I know MasterFormat but not Revit. Through some exploring with him, I have seen that all of the families (what I understand as blocks from my AutoCAD knowledge... kinda) are categorized according to numbers from (I think) OmniClass table 23 (still not exactly sure where knowledge of OmniClass is relevant to me as the M&E consultant). I see that we can point to an element and keynote it with a MF number. I guess my stupid question, is what is the intent of doing this? Is this so the contractor/bidder knows from the drawing where to find the spec for the Work Result, or is it a tool for us to know what spec sections we need in a job, or a combination? In my office, we have rarely ever added spec section number annotations to drawings, in fact I'm the only person who does it.