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Hello everyone,

I work for an architecture firm and we just received the Revit MEP and Structural models. Our client and my boss would like me to show the MEP ducts, electrical outlets, etc. and the Structural columns and beams within our Architecture model. Basically they want the final printed drawings to have certain elements of the Engineers information on our drawings. In essence he wants the coordination to be as close to perfect as it can possibly be. My main question is what is best possible way to go about doing this. I know you can link the MEP and Structural models into the Architecture file and go about it that way. However, if I do it this way I have to override almost every views visibility/graphics to show only what I want shown. The other way I know to do it is by opening the files by side by side and copying only what I want from each file and putting it into the Architecture.  The downside to this is that it increases my already huge file size to an even bigger file size. These are the only two ways that I know to do what I would like. I was just curious if anyone knew of a better way? Thank You for your time and sorry about the wall of text.

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Have you heard of view templates?

Set the VG model elements for the linked models in your view templates.

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I have heard of view templates and I have tried using them; however, I can't seem to find all the elements within the visibility graphics override for that Revit Link. An example would be I can turn off electrical fixtures, but there isn't a tab for light switches (lighting devices as revit calls them).

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You have to check the box "Show categories from all disciplines.

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AH Okay! Thank You for pointing that out! I appreciate it.

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I, like Alex, am being asked to do the exact same thing from my boss.  However I am very new to Revit and I am not even clear on how to go about linking their models into mine.  I just received the MEP model and I am quite lost.  Could someone please help me out with this process.  I am sure I am making much harder than it needs to be.  Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out

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Durango,

The easiest way to bring in MEP models that I have found is by using Link Revit. It is located under the insert tab. Basically just click it and find the MEP model file you want to use. There are some important things to note though. If the MEP engineer inserted your file using the origin then you need to do same thing. That way your files will stack on top of each other perfectly. What I mean by this is when your inserting the MEP model file into yours there is a Positioning drop down box down at the bottom, make sure that it set to Auto- Origin to Origin. Hopefully this is clear hah. I apologize if it is confusing.

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