Architectural specifications on a sheet

tim

When documenting small-scale projects, my approach typically involves incorporating a title sheet with architectural specification notes, sectioned by discipline. I usually find this to be adequate for construction documentation and obtaining a building permit. Recently, I've contemplated creating a text-block IfcTypeProduct for each discipline, envisioning the creation of an IFC library file for all my specification sections. This would facilitate the workflow of adding specification sections to a title sheet on a project-by-project basis. However, this has sparked two questions :

1. Is it advisable at all for IFC files to serve as repositories for specification text?
2. What would be the optimal method for storing and adding specification text to a sheet? Should it involve schedules (notably, I'm not fond of the multi-step process required to get a schedule on a sheet), or would a bank view with annotations be a more efficient alternative?

Interested to hear how others are approaching this.

theoryshaw

Is it advisable at all for IFC files to serve as repositories for specification text?

would seem to be a little painful to do it like this. If you entering all this info via BB, wouldn't you have to use a manual \n for every newline?
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How about just manually creating a .ODS spreadsheet with your specs and inserting the schedule onto a BB sheet?
or..
how about creating just a manual SVG in inkscape with a list of your specs, and then add it to a BB sheet, via References?

tim

Thanks @theoryshaw , I didn’t know what References were for and could be used like that.

Moult

Agreed, for anybody reading along, the References feature is intended to reference any arbitrary document. It could be a symbol legend, a legal disclaimer stamp, site photography, etc.