Forums >> Revit Building >> Technical Support >> project standards

WYS1WYG

Joined: Sun, Jan 4, 2009
356 Posts

this forum is amazing..

what's the difference between copying project

standards from a current project to a new

project- or opening a copy of a blank project

with all the standards in it?

unless something like your current project

will always have slightly updated standards

to transfer or something?

just a little theory question..

This user is offline

WWHub

site moderator|||

Joined: Tue, May 16, 2006
13079 Posts

You can have a lot more set up in a template than you can transfer from an existing project.  I don't have access to Revit right now so some of these may be transferable but in a template, you can have - schedules, legends, families, browser organization, view templates, title sheets fully setup, common drafting details.  Some of these can be copy/clipped and pasted across the projects but that takes a lot more work.

This user is offline

coreed

site moderator|||

Joined: Fri, Feb 10, 2006
1874 Posts

if your talking theory, the above statemnet would be the definition of a template file. thus any new project you started with a template file would atleast have this basic set of standards in common as WWHub stated. i think your question is one of semantics. any file that you are using to establish standards for a new files becomes a template in essence.

but you are correct about this, "this forum is amazing..."

hth

-----------------------------------

best regards,

coreed,aia

bmpArchitects,Inc.

"Revit has to be implemented, Not installed." 

Long Live Revit

This user is offline

WYS1WYG

Joined: Sun, Jan 4, 2009
356 Posts

yes a blank project template..

so then what is the idea of transfer project standards?

This user is offline

coreed

site moderator|||

Joined: Fri, Feb 10, 2006
1874 Posts

just another tool for the same thing. sometimes you need to update projects or templates to the current standards. during the course of completing a project and some new standards have been argreed on, you always want to tranfer those to your template file in the end. maybe it's a standards that's just going to be used between a couple of projects. some of these things could just as easily be cut-n-pasted between projects. Transfer Project Standard is a formal Revit procedure for accomplishing this task

-----------------------------------

best regards,

coreed,aia

bmpArchitects,Inc.

"Revit has to be implemented, Not installed." 

Long Live Revit

This user is offline

WYS1WYG

Joined: Sun, Jan 4, 2009
356 Posts

thanks for that great answer coreed..

and now that i have you "on the line" lol-

i would like to get your expert opinion of

something.. (am i picking your brain?) he he..

i understand about exporting an uncluttered

version of my building to the civil engineer

via DWG- but i'm wondering if i could or

should bring all those civil 3d lines into

revit to plot together will all the sheets..

or should the DWG drawing sheets just

be sent to the building dept. along with

 the revit sheets? same for the plumbing

and electrical.. seems like it would be

nice to have all of it on one drawing set

but i don't know if anyone does it that

way..

This user is offline

Tyman

active

Joined: Fri, Jan 27, 2012
2 Posts
No Rating

You don't include the topographic lines, these along with an outline or building footprint will be shown in the grading and site plans prepared by the civil engineers

This user is offline

TRANSFER PROJECT STANDARDS???

2

transfer project standards - line weights not transfering

6

Transfer Project Standards not working

3

Transfering project standards

1

Revit MEP 2011 API - Open file and transfer project standards

6