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Database of annotations.

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:26:21 GMT

I apologise if the answer to my question is available. I have not been able to find it and am running out of time.
What I would like to do is produce a database of annotations which can be given a unique short identifier and can be imported/added to a plan, section or elevation with 1 or 2 clicks.
Residential building in New Zealand uses the same annotations for most of the simple standard constructions. Typing each one is time consuming. If notations could be dropped in like objects, it would speed up the design and could also be used to populate any specifications accompanying the plans.

Re: Database of annotations.

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:27:00 GMT

Not one or two clicks, but setting up autotext fields in the Project Info database will do what you want. The Project Info can be exported/imported as an XML file, should that be helpful.

See:
http://www.archicadwiki.com/AutoTextAnnotation

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Database of annotations.

owen — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:03:40 GMT

You could also use an object which references an external TXT file for a list of short identifiers and longer annotation. This does require some knowledge of GDL and if you are short on time maybe not the way to go but if given time to setup can be very useful.

Check out this thread as a starting point:

The FreeKeyNote Label Project

cheers,

os

Re: Database of annotations.

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:45:06 GMT

Thanks go to both replies. I will look at both options in due course.