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cboersen

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I have a project that is always on-going.  It is an existing plant and we always have a few design projects going in it at any one time.  They are always in different stages of development (some completed, some just starting, some in the middle someplace).  By the time we are done, we will have 20+ seperate projects all in this one building and all with staggered timing.  They all need seperate sheet numbers and title blocks.

At the start I just put all the projects in the main model, but soon I had way more views than was easily contrtolable and I ran out of acceptable sheet numbers.

Then for a few projects I was linking the main model into a "working" model and adding new model elements in that file (demo would obviously have to be done in the original), but that really started to fracture the model, but it worked good.  I just really worry about how to get the model all into one file again at some point.

My next idea is to put all the model elements in the main model and link it to a "working" file and ONLY add all the annotation, make views and make sheets in that file.  I can control what is new and existing by adding phases in the main model and phase mapping into the working file.

I'm not sure if that is the best way to do this sort of thing.  Any suggestions?

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Some thoughts:

I think the final model wants to be all in one but that doesn't mean annotations, just model.  If the base model is linked into seperate project models, the sheets can all be there.  Items to be demolished in the main model could be placed in special demolished worksets where they could be filtered and controlled in the project model.  Upon completetion of that project, the demolished workset and contents would be deleted in the main model, then the project model is linked in and then bound into the main model.  Now the main model is up to date.

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My second (middle) idea is the way to go then.  I will just have to add a demo workset for each project and try a bind.  I did not know that was what the bind command did ... this should be interesting.

Thanks for the direction.

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Bind is a useful tool but understand the bound objects are a group.  To then edit in the future, you need to explode the group.  When you do that, make sure you delete the group listed under groups in your project browser.  No reason to keep and overload your model.

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