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