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britc

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I am working on our firms' first revit project and we are trying to determine the best method for our typical building. We have 3 'prototypes' that are the standard for the building (one for each sf..35,000; 38,000; 42,000) so we are hoping to build these in revit and use them from project to project (aside from minor changes). The issues comes with those 'minor' changes. At times the shape/overall dimensions of the buildings have to change, therefore the entire interior layout shifts and/or is just a bit different than the typical layout.

In these situations, we are hoping to have individual pieces of the project to manipulate outside of the exterior to fit and then place in the model. In order to accomplish this, would you suggest separate .rvt files that are saved and then saved as & linked into each new project or would you suggest having each piece be a workset.

I understand mostly how to do the linking, but in terms of a workset can these be 'saved as' into a new project and manipulated easily? Hopefully this makes sense. I have found the method to do most of this, I am just unsure what is the better process for this type of project.

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Why are you manipulating portions of the building outside the project?  This doesn't make sense.

Making the building longer, changing the exterior shape somewhat are really not problems.  Even adding or deleting levels can usually be handled but mirroring the project can be problematic.

I think you are too inexperienced to set hard rules yet for how you will be doing this.  I suggest you get at least one project done complete with it all in one first.  At the same time, you can experiment with some test projects to see what does and doesn't work.

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