[Carl Wegman]

I have not seen that type of reference / link.

Links to sections or details on other pages in the same document are appreciated!

In your example, I’d like a link to jump to the door schedule…

[Doug McLean]

That would be another use case for sure

[Doug McLean]

So I tried going backwards a little.

I started in the Specs and had the drawings open. Did a search through All Open Documents.

Works the same, I just don’t have to create Places

[Vince]

I see this a lot with one of our main contractors but haven’t really looked at the linking process.

Having just had a quick play with this, I find my way of creating an index page for the specification kind of helps although this relies on the details all being on separate pages within the specification.

Have the specification open on a separate tab and just select the detail that you want to go to from the index page.

Not the perfect solution but maybe a work around in some cases?

[Roye Arie]

I haven’t encountered such reference. I think there’s great potential in it to strengthen the connection between plans and spec, But unless an automatic tool is designated to make that connection, I think it will be very timely on a full scale project.

If it’s more of a limited scope, it may be more feasible.

In my opinion, it’s more important to use the same text in reference on the drawings and spec so it’s consistent and easier to search.

[Troy DeGroot]

I wonder if they are housing all the specs in Revit so the references are live. I would think it would be a nightmare to manage. Seems helpful.

[Isaac Harned]

Is there a reason you can’t flatten them and run Batch hyperlink? It should not flatten permanently, so you should be able to unflatten afterwards.

[Doug McLean]

that’s actually worse

You’re limited in how you can use the Batch Hyperlink function.
If you chose a page region in your specification documents, its going to look in that spot on every page of the Spec docs, to match to every page in the drawing set.

This would work if each spec actually had its own page in the Spec book.

Hopefully I explained that right

[Isaac Harned]

Why not File Name?

I know this takes setting up bookmarks ahead of time, which are hardly ever correct downstream, but you could simplify the bookmarks and have Bluebeam Split the Doc by Top level, with naming dependent on the Bookmark. Obviously this would probably take more individual files, but using callouts for this kind of info (Noticed it with RFI’s too) is definitely becoming a thing.

[Dwane Lindsey]

Usually, those notes (Keynotes) aren’t related back to the actual spec book, those are usually related to a Keynote sheet within the drawing set (usually in the beginning of the set) that calls out what each Keynote actually is.

So the 09 97 00.PL11 Keynote references a certain note and instead of writing the note, they put this number sequence. The number is the spec section/spec item number (Finishes in this case), then the .PL11 is the specific note.

UNLESS, these notes are material references, then those are usually tied back to the actual Spec Book.