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avasarella

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Hi, I am trying to figure out the best way to approach renovating a building in Revit. 

My VERY Revit-knowledgable co-worker likes to use a "Demo Model" that then gets linked into the "Working Model" where all of the new work gets put into. She does this because she wants the existing items to stay where they are and this way they are a lot less likely to accidentally be moved around. To demo walls, etc, we have to go into the Demo model, make the changes, reload the Demo model into the New model and then build a wall so we can then put a window or wall into the recently demo'd location.

This seems like a lot of work to do. I prefer having a single phased revit model and just do all the work in there. If you're really worried about things moving around, pin them.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

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mansell5

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a single phased model.

existing and new ?

maybe cover demo with dashed detail lines when elevations etc placed on sheet.

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This person's process is crazy....

There are a couple of possibilities to protect existing model elements.  You could put them all in a seperate workset and someone could check that workset out.  Any knowlegable user can get arout this but it has to be intentional.  Another is: you could also place all existing items in a design option.  You have to be in the design option to edit them.

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WWHub, those ideas are very helpful. I hadn't thought of the design option set appraoch. How would that work when you go to create an actual design option then?

Also, this may be a stupid topic and maybe our entire firm just isn't getting it (you'd think working primarily in Revit for 5 years would do the trick..).. but we haven't been able to get worksets to work properly as I expect them to work, by being able to lock an entire workset and it doesn't change anything. For instance, all the worksets currently say they are not editable but we can do whatever we want in the model. Do I need to adjust something on everyone's computers so they can't edit inactive worksets? (Right now they have "Yes" under Opened but I don't know how to make it actually non-editable). Any tips? I'm sure it's something we've just missed entirely that makes this work properly.

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Design options are easy once you understand that you have design options which are under OPTION SETS.  In this case and because there are no options for existing conditions, you would only have one design option (existing conditions) as the base and only option in an option set of the same name.

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Thanks a lot. I will talk this through with my co-worker and see if I can change the complicated way we are doing things.

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