Revit Construction Documentation and Sheets 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A Revit elevation tag placed in a floor plan shows an arrow pointing in the wrong direction. How do you correct it?
- Rotate the elevation tag by typing a new angle in properties
- Flip the elevation tag using the Flip control or mirror it (Correct answer)
- Delete and re-place the elevation tag in the correct orientation
- Change the elevation's 'Camera Angle' parameter in view properties
Correct answer: Flip the elevation tag using the Flip control or mirror it
Elevation tags have a Flip control (small arrow) that reverses the view direction without deleting and recreating the tag.
Question 2: What Revit tool would you use to create a large-scale detail drawing based on a portion of an existing floor plan view?
- Detail View (callout) (Correct answer)
- Drafting View
- Section View
- Legend View
Correct answer: Detail View (callout)
A Callout placed in a floor plan creates a new detail or plan view showing a zoomed-in region of the parent view at a larger scale.
Question 3: Which property on a Revit sheet controls whether the sheet appears in a printed sheet list or drawing index?
- Appears In Sheet List (Correct answer)
- Include in Index
- Sheet Visibility
- Print Status
Correct answer: Appears In Sheet List
The 'Appears In Sheet List' checkbox in sheet properties determines whether the sheet is included when a Drawing List schedule filters the sheet set.
Question 4: When you add a new revision to the Revit Revisions dialog, what two pieces of information are required at minimum?
- Revision number and issued date
- Description and revision sequence (numbering method) (Correct answer)
- Revision cloud visibility and date
- Description and issued-by field
Correct answer: Description and revision sequence (numbering method)
Each revision requires a Description and is assigned a sequence number controlled by the Numbering setting (Numeric, Alphabetic, etc.) in the Revisions dialog.
Question 5: You want a floor plan on a sheet to show furniture but a reflected ceiling plan on the same sheet to hide it. How do you achieve this without affecting other views?
- Use Visibility/Graphics Overrides independently in each view to show or hide the Furniture category (Correct answer)
- Create a View Filter applied globally to both views
- Modify the project's Object Styles to hide Furniture globally
- Use a View Template that hides Furniture and apply it only to the reflected ceiling plan
Correct answer: Use Visibility/Graphics Overrides independently in each view to show or hide the Furniture category
Each view has independent Visibility/Graphics settings, so you can turn Furniture on in the floor plan and off in the RCP without affecting anything else.
Question 6: Which Revit annotation tool creates a note that automatically retrieves its text from a pre-defined keynote table (txt file)?
- Text Note
- Keynote (Correct answer)
- Tag All Not Tagged
- Multi-Leader Note
Correct answer: Keynote
The Keynote tool reads from a linked keynote text file and places numbered notes that correspond to entries in that file.
Question 7: A section marker in Revit shows a 'head' and a 'tail' symbol. What does the tail symbol indicate?
- The far end of the section cut depth (the back clip plane location)
- The sheet and view number of the section view (the reference callout) (Correct answer)
- The direction of the section cut relative to the project north
- The extent of the section in the perpendicular direction
Correct answer: The sheet and view number of the section view (the reference callout)
The tail of the section marker displays the sheet number and detail number where the section view is placed, serving as a cross-reference callout.
Revit Construction Documentation and Sheets 4
A Revit elevation tag placed in a floor plan shows an arrow pointing in the wrong direction.
How do you correct it?