Field Reports

Verity’s Field Reports are designed to simplify on-site identification of installation issues found in a Verity Analysis.

Field Reports will be created in PDF format, and like other Verity reports, will be selection-based (the items selected in the Verity Item Table will be included in the report) and will follow WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) principles for imagery.

Included are a project Title Page and field-friendly Item pages, which feature Grid Locations, Verity Translation metrics oriented to Project North, and isometric screenshots of the item’s location in the model.

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Title Page

The title page of a field report will include the name of the Verity project from which the report was produced and the date the report was created. The key at the bottom of the page corresponds to the Verity Viewer screenshots (top-right of Item pages) and notes the familiar Verity coloration of As-Designed elements in magenta and As-Built elements in cyan. Title pages will be created in Portrait page orientation.

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Item Pages

When a Field Report is created in Verity, each element selected in the Item Table will generate its own page containing pertinent location information, Verity translation metrics, element identifiers, and screenshots of the item in the model. Item pages will be created in landscape page orientation.

• Report Date - The date on which the Report was created.
• Issue Found Date - The Review Date from the Verity Item Table (the date on which this item was marked as Reviewed in Verity).
• Grid Location - Applicable when there is an active Grid included in the host model. Verity items with an As-Built location (Installation Status is classified as Installed or Uncertain) will measure from that As-Built location to the nearest gridline intersection. Verity items without an As-Built location (Installation Status is classified in a status other than Installed or Uncertain) will measure the distance from the modeled element to the nearest gridline intersection. The distance units in these measurements will match your project units in Revit, and in Navisworks will be in metric (ft.) or imperial (m) units as matches your Verity units.
  • *Grids must be active in the host model prior to completing Analyze in Verity in order for items in that analysis to include Grid Location. This information will not be included in reports generated on Analyses completed prior to v2.0.5
• Translation Metrics - The Total Translation from the Verity Item Table (the highest deviation between the As-Built and As-Design items) and the directional deviation in Northing-Easting format. The distance units in these measurements will match the Verity Display Units as they were set at the time of Analyze.

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• ElementID - This is the Revit ID, applicable to model elements that originated from a Revit file, making it easy to find that element in the Revit or Navisworks model with the Select by ID or Quick Find tools. If a geometry file originated outside of Revit- a .DWG from AutoCAD, for example- this value will not be populated. Keep in mind that because Verity analyses are snapshots of the model at the time they’re completed, it is possible this reported ID will change in the original model to no longer match the Verity report.
• UniqueID - All elements will report a UniqueID dependent on the host application the element was analyzed in. If the Verity analysis was done on a Navisworks model, this ID will reflect the Navisworks Item GUID, making it easy to use Navisworks’ Find Items or Quick Find tools to locate the item in the model. In Revit, this is the Revit UniqueID of the original element.
• IFC ID - Elements that originated in IFC format or have an IfcGuid attached will report this ID for an added layer of consistency between models. In Revit, this ID will match the element’s IfcGUID property in the IFC Parameters section of the Properties pane. In Navisworks, this ID will match the IfcGUID property most commonly found on the Elements property tab.

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• Notes - Displays any text present in the Notes column in the Verity Item Table (at the time the report is generated).
• Action Required - Displays any text present in the Action Required column in the Verity Item Table.
• Verity Reviewer - Displays any text present in the Reviewer column in the Verity Item Table (at the time the report is generated).

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• Field Reviewer and Field Notes - This is a static box for use with PDF markup/editing tools.

Screenshots

Both the Verity screenshot and the host model screenshots will be What You See Is What You Get- in the host screenshots, model elements currently visible in the model space will be included in the screenshots. Therefore, when producing Field Reports for interior elements, we recommend hiding other element categories that may obstruct line-of-sight to the items of interest (most commonly walls, roofs, etc.)

• Top-right image - This screenshot displays the single-view Verity Viewer window for the current item. This image is WYSIWYG- it will match the Verity view settings at the time the report is generated.
• Bottom-right image - A top-down view of the host model with the current Item selected to highlight it.
• Bottom-center image - An isometric view of the host model with the current Item selected to highlight it.

In both Revit and Navisworks, the Report element will be selected/highlighted in the screenshots. In Navisworks, other visible elements will be mostly transparent for clarity, and the point cloud will be shown if it is visible in the Navisworks model space.

In Revit, Verity will create an Isometric Reporting View temporarily to take screenshots. By default, this view follows a simplistic template. To manipulate the graphics of the Revit-hosted screenshots, please apply your desired view template to all new 3D views.