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How do people approach housing cluster projects? I was recently told to design each house in a seperate file and then link them in to one common file. Later i was told do design all the buildings in the one file and document them together.
Now i am trying to copy all the buildings back into one file but encountering various problems.
One of them, and this might be a basic one to many people here, is if one is designing many houses in the one file, how does one create new floor plans. Does anyone know of any good tutorials which talk in more detail about cluster housing projects?
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Okay,
Pro's and Con's of the two methods:
1. Linked files
If there are a lot or repeated housing elements, then simple to update, as you just need to update the appropriate link file and it will automatically update in the site file.
Information from the linked files cannot be scheduled in the site file. (Therefore you would need to create individual schedules for each building in their respective file).
This method is much quicker to work on and easier to manage.
2. One file.
If you want the ability to schedule everything together then this is the way to go.
Can become very slow to work on, and as you mentioned difficult to create individual floor plans for each building as you need to duplicate the views and adjust the crop regions to each individual building...
At our office we typically use linked files for this, as it also promotes the ability for many people to work on the files with less workset confusion...
Hope this helps.
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Mr. Spot,
thanks for your reply.
Ahh, now thats interesting. Maybe I should stick to the linked file now that i've ventured some distance into it. The only problem is it takes so curse long to open, save and close the file each time, and if you want to update a drawing you have to go back into the origin file... in other words, going to and fro is cumbersome, but maybe with practice i'll learn to streamline it a bit.
Another question, how does working with linked files like this go in terms of working on steep sites, contours. How easy is it to work these in ie: set different heights and levels to the different buildings.
Have you experiment much with design options yet?
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Yeah, well i guess you get use to opening and managing the various files, (trust me though it is faster this way than if it was all in one file).
Moving the individual buildings around in the site file is simple... Want to change the level, go to an elevation and move it up or downwards... Much easier than if all the buildings were in one file, as you would need to select all the geometry in order to move the building.
I've used design options numerous times... I still find it annoying that there is no "remove from design option set" tool, and having to make do with cut and pasting if you make a mistake when setting up the options. Best to work out exactly what needs to go into each design option before attempting them.
Otherwise it can get a little frustration.
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OK,
I'll give it a go and see how it works out.
Yes my criticism with design options are those two issues. My understanding of the way design options should work is to support the 'organic' nature which the design process follows... having to decide what goes into design options prior seems a bit awkward i think.
I recently did intro. training and the trainer told me not to use design options as they haven't nutted them out properly yet. I think if they do, my opinion is that it will be the design option tools which may give revit some 'design' power and potential... as is, it is another very intelligent drafting and documentation tool.
You seem to have some advanced experiences with Revit... do you mind if i fire some more questions your way as I go?
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