Click View tab › Sheet Composition panel › Sheet Issues/Revisions, click Add and enter the date and description. Draw a cloud with Annotate tab › Detail panel › Revision Cloud, set its Revision in Properties and tag it. The sheet then lists it.
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How to do it in Revit
Step 1: Decide how clouds are numbered
Click View tab › Sheet Composition panel › Sheet Issues/Revisions and set the cloud Numbering to Per Project or Per Sheet before you add anything. Changing it later can renumber every cloud (Autodesk Help: Specify Revision Cloud Numbering by Project or by Sheet).
Step 2: Add the revision
In the same dialog, click Add; for the project's first revision, fill in the default row instead. Set the row's Numbering (Numeric, Alphanumeric or None), Date and Description, which is what the sheets' revision schedules print (Autodesk Help: Enter Revision Information).
Step 3: Draw the revision cloud
Open the view that changed and click Annotate tab › Detail panel › Revision Cloud. Sketch around the change with a draw tool, press the spacebar to flip the arcs, and click Finish Edit Mode (Autodesk Help: Add a Revision Cloud). Clouds work in any view except 3D.
Step 4: Assign the right revision
A new cloud takes the latest revision on its view's sheet. To change it, select the cloud and pick another Revision in the Properties palette.
Step 5: Tag the cloud
Click Annotate tab › Tag panel › Tag by Category (TG) and click each cloud. The tag shows the revision number; a project started from the default template already has the Revision Tag family loaded.
Step 6: Add a revision to sheets without clouds
Select one or more sheets in the Project Browser, click Edit next to Revisions on Sheet in the Properties palette, and check Shown in Revision Schedule for the revision (Autodesk Help: Specify the Revisions to Include in a Revision Schedule). Revisions that come from clouds on a sheet are already checked and locked.
Step 7: Issue it
When the set goes out, fill in Issued to and Issued by and check Issued. Revit then locks that row and its clouds, and you can't assign the revision to new clouds; clear Issued to make a change.
What to watch for
Reordering renumbers. Move Up and Move Down in Sheet Issues/Revisions change the sequence, and every tag and revision schedule renumbers to match. Merge Up and Merge Down combine two rows and discard the merged row's date and description.
Deleting a revision deletes its clouds. Delete removes the revision along with every cloud and tag assigned to it. An issued revision can't be deleted, and a project always keeps at least one.
Hide a cloud without losing the revision. Set the revision's Show to None or Tag, or hide the Revision Clouds category in the view, and the revision stays in the schedule. Hide in View › Elements, or cropping the cloud out, drops it. More in how to hide and unhide elements.
Change cloud color for the whole project. In Manage tab › Settings panel › Object Styles, set Revision Clouds on the Annotation Objects tab. For one cloud, right-click it and use Override Graphics in View › By Element.
The schedule lives in the title block. A sheet lists revisions only if its title block has a revision schedule. See how to create a title block to add one.
Revisions pile up across the set. An addendum can touch forty sheets, and each one needs the revision added, a cloud drawn and the schedule checked before it goes out. A missed sheet prints the wrong revision history, and nothing flags it until a contractor asks. That checking across sheets is the kind of repetitive work an AI agent for Revit can take on, with you approving each change.
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Add Revision 3 to sheets A-101 through A-110.
Mira reads Sheet Issues/Revisions to confirm which revision is 3, says which sheets already show it through clouds, and asks before adding it to the rest. It writes a small tool to add it, which asks Allow first, and reads each sheet back; one Ctrl+Z undoes it.
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