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Reddrev

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Hi All,

I have a mixed use project to design.   A podium design of 4 floors to be a shopping mall with 3 basement levels,  3 office towers with different floor to floor levels for each tower and 4 apartment towers, again different floor to floor levels.

The podium has one set of grids,  the offices have their own different grids as do the apartment towers.

The mall and towers will be design by different teams, but still need to come together on a master file.

Is there a recommnded way to combine worksets, linked files etc  to smooth the workflow and reduce file sizes etc.  

Many Thanks

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marmiketin1

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I would suggest using linked models and shared coordinates for each of the towers as well as the mall to locate the individual buildings where you need them to be. It may be a good idea to set up grid lines at the walls of the core shafts of the apartments and office towers where the elevators and stairs will be so that you can visually locate the linked models. You could then have a sheet with an exploded axonometric view of the seperate buildings showing how the parts fit together and the differing gridlines align together. This could also be verbally expressed by stating something like, intersection of grids A1 for Mall is aligned with intersection of grids P3 for Office Tower A.

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dgcad

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A big part of this situation is 'where are the sheets' going to live. Ideally create a composite model (with match lines) with everything linked together (on seperate worksets) for the big picture but keep the actual documentation, tagging, scheduling and sheets to seperate models if you can.

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Reddrev

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thanks everyone.

I need to get my head around the best way to manage the different levels (and grids) in a linked file, as they will appear in the host files project browser.  I know I can control their visbilty in each view.  But they remain in the project browser.  Also, labeling them, as each tower will have L5, L6, L7  etc  so will the linked files for their respective towers and all gets confusing with "duplicate" names and how Revit modifies the name to avoid duplicates.   Maybe I need to uniquely tag the levels relative to their source file and the tower they are part of -  T1-L5, T1-L6  etc....   

Apartment towers are 100m high  and office towers 150 to 250m high.  So a lot of levels.  I work in a chinese architects office in Shenzhen, China.   They are moving (trying to) from ACAD to Revit. ACAD is basically used as a digital drawing board and they have staff who just do the scheduling for the 2D drawings, which of course can now be done by Revit.   Interesting times here :o)

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You write: ".... different levels (and grids) in a linked file, as they will appear in the host files project browser..."  What?   No, the levels and grids never show in the host files project browser.

Yes, the levels and grids in a linked file will show in a view that includes that linked file according to Revit's rules on visibility.   If they do show and if they were created correctly, they should only be in the area of that structure.

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Reddrev

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Wwhub,  Yes, sorry my mistake.  

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