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Hi everyone, this is my first post. I check out this site every day for the past year and a half though. I'm the CAD manager for a homebuilder. We are in the process of converting our homes and designing all new homes in Revit and we love it so far. The major problem I am having is with mirroring (not a surprise!). I just finished a fairly custom two story craftsman style home that we are getting ready to build. The problem is I need to mirror it. Eventually we'll need a mirrored version of every plan. I've mirrored a few homes before and haven't had too much trouble but these were usually in earlier stages of development. One problem I'm having is when I select everything (in 3D wireframe) then tab through each view selecting text, dimensions etc. and get ready to mirror about a reference plan the "create copy" box is greyed out giving me no choice but to make a copy. Does anyone know why this does this??? The second problem appears to have something to do with my in-place families (popouts, general exterior craftsman details etc.). It won't mirror the house period because of these (I think). Am I going to have to bite the bullet and delete all of these details, mirror, then redo them? If so, fine, I'll just mirror future homes before the detailing. I don't know if this is the only problem but it is all I can get from the highly detailed error messages after it tells me "cannot copy selection". Having two versions of each house or being able to fairly easilly mirror a single "base" version is extremely crucial to getting these homes to the field quickly and justifying all of the time and expense of our revit conversion here. I absolutely love the program  except for the dang mirroring) but it is hard to explain to the bosses why such an expensive and advanced program can't do what AutoCAD can. All they want is homes on time without errors. Any help is would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for such a long post. Thanks! Cole
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Mirroring is (and has been) a problem in Revit. There is no good way right now. Hopefully Revit 2008 will finally address the problem. Of course I hoped that 6, 6.1, 7, 7.1, 8, 8.1, 9 & 9.1 would have addressed the problem too.
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I found (through reading posts) that linking the file into a new project and then mirroring it there works pretty sweet. I just have to have two files for one house in the folder. Too bad you can't bind the linked file and explode it.
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Yes the linking works, but it needs to improve for documentation purposes. I have real hope that Revit 2008 addresses this as I have heard rumors that linking finally gets some improvements.
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I hope it gets some improvements. I thought the linking worked sweet until I noticed my roof framing plan (see attached pdf). The trusses on the right don't even show up (may be some deal with that particular truss). I can't find anything in the visibility graphics linked files area that might deal with this though. Also, my upper and lower levels don't show at all. In the original the lower level top plate is an underlay with a plan region showing the upper level. the roof outlines are missing on the left garage roof. If you hover your mouse over the linked file, all teh roof outlines show up red. The other annoying thing is the shaded region I've used for overframing is no longer see-through. Any ideas? Cole
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