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zakazai

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Hi 

I have many floors typical in the tower  project. 

What is the best way to build, 

Is it model one floor and copy, how? As group? 

Then what happens to items mentioned as floor wise. 

What about linking floor as external file. 

But I am expecting changes in design more often. 

Please advise best practices. 

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Just recently finished a project with multiple identical floors...

I believe now that the best way to have done this is to model floors identical as external linked files.Then you can reference them in and copy them up and down relative as necessary.

I do not know how this works when it comes to tagging and scheduling though as i have not done it yet, others may have some insight.

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If you don't have seperate floor plans for these levels and no door or room tags, then just use a group.  A group takes up very little file space nd it can be edited.  YOU DON'T WANT TO INCLUDE DOOR TAGS, ROOM OR ROOM TAGS.   Obviously the doors will want to schedule but you can filter them out.

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linking won't be your best choice if you are going to schedule any of the items on copied linked floors because revit reads the same level on linked copies as well , so copy links only horizontally but vertically what i did with the current project am working with that have multiple identical floors is using groups each group on a separate file and repeat them vertically then link to my main project .

( that practice is for big projects because large groups act weired sometimes , if it is a small project group in the same project would work great )

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Hi, All

Thank you very much for all of you who gave great ideas about this issue.

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Just got one more suggesion

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/managing-revit-project-that-has-similar-items-repeating/m-p/7386637#M163058

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Hi All

i have tested a way of managing this multiple copying of similar items in revit. i feel this is good way, and i did not find any difficulties in it.

please give suggestions.

i use the "Save selection" option for it. please find the attached snaps for each step.

1: Step 1, i selected the unit of a building, say a flat, that is to be copied to multiple level, then i saved that selectetion with a name as shown in pic.

then i use Isolate element for this selected flat. so that i dont have any other elements in the screen, so selection is easy.

2: Step 2, i loaded the saved selection of name (typical flat), then i copied and pasted to multiple levels. then i used Temporary hide option for the saved flat. so that i will see only the new copied flats on multiple levels in the screen.

3: Step3, I slected all the copied flats and gave a new name as copied flats, to make a new set of selection to save. then i reset temporary hide option.

Now if my typical floor design changes, i will load the copied flats, and i will delete all. then i load and isolate the first saved flat, i will change design, then i will copy it to the levels.

By this way, i can avoid using grouping option that sometimes makes problems in the project.

Dears Please give your openion about this.

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Typical Floor as a Linked Revit File

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Spot Elevation for a typical floor

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Grouping Floors

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Copied dimensions from typical floors loose reference

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Inter connecting REVIT LINKS

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