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Looking for material on procedures for working on a building with repetitous floors and the best method of practice.
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Do you mean with the same floor plan? What is repeating on those floors?
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Yep, like an apartment or hotel
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Not sure about any reading material on this topic other than your regions building code. For best practice you will want to line up all your services vertically (plumbing, hvac, communications, server rooms) so that things are not snaking all over the place and going up or down through levels at random locations.
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I mean more like methods of using revit. 100 stacked rooms all the same without drawing them all individually or getting everything done and then a change you have to do 100 times. I know in CAD, people use a block for a room and copy it around.
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I guess you could group your entire floor and then array it vertically.
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Actually I would not array it as things like walls would all still be associated with the bottom level with an offset. You would want to group the things that are repetetive and then copy/paste aligned to selected levels.
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Don't group and don't array. Simply copy all of the interior rooms, walls, fixtures, doors etc to clipboard and paste aligned to selected levels. You can select more than one level at a time.
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If you anticipate making changes to the configuration, then grouping and copying that group to selected levels – or arraying it horizontally – would seem a better approach. By doing this way, you can edit the group later to make changes to all instances of that group – similar to redefining an ACAD block.
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I don't know how arraying horizontally will work here as Bartolomew suggests. If you array elements vertically, they will all retain the level properties they were created on. Do you really want 3rd floor elements to say they are on the 1st floor but with a vertical offest? NOT A GOOD PROCESS! And arraying vertically will not allow for level differences if all of the floor to floors are not the same. A simple check of this process shows this problem.
Grouping and copying to selected levels will work but you will not want to include rooms in the final grouping as they will not be unique. If you do include rooms, the edit your group later to remove the rooms from the group thus allowing them to be unique.
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There is a neat little feature located under the instance properties of a Model Group: it’s called “Reference Level”. Here you can change the Reference Level of the Group Instance.
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And does that change it for the items in the group or just the group? Check a schedule.
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http://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2016/ENU/?guid=GUID-1440031D-3747-4525-9FA8-FC74A45BEBD7
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This only talks about the group, not the elements in the group. I don't have Revit here to test and you need to test. Did you note the warning in what you posted?
Note: Some group members may not move as a result of entering an offset value. Some elements, such as components, remain on the level line if they are not hosted by another object such as a floor.
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