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Apologies if this has been covered, but I was hoping someone might have some good insight that would help with our Revit growing pains. I'm currently on a project that, while contained in one shell, is two clients, on two separate floors, with two separate schedules, and requires two sheet sets with different info in the title blocks, even though there is some crossover and pooling of resources for the common areas. When we started, I built one model for the existing conditions, but during schematic design, it appeared that the sheet setup with 2 different title blocks was not going to work out, so we ended up splitting things up into 2 separate central/local file groups. I'm now having second thoughts about that decision, as I'd like to have one true central file with the most up to date info from both floors to send to our engineers, who are beginning to feel their way through Revit Systems. Any thoughts for the more experienced among you about the ideal setup for this type of project, and/or things I could do to streamline this project or future projects in this vein would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. --M
Edited on: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 at 10:28:10 AM
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Sounds like a Tenant Improvement style project. If you have two seperate projects and need seperate titleblocks, job numbers etc. then you need two seperate Revit projects for each client's work. I would model the 'base' building in it's own file and the base building would contain all the things like exterior walls, bathrooms, core, stairs etc. Then link that base building file into your seperate client files for the TI type work. A potential problem with this approach though is if you have to modify something in the base building file such as placing a new door in a common corridor wall that is modeled in the base file. You could also keep everything in one file and look at phasing, but then you still have the problem of two job numbers and since you can't have duplicate sheet numbers you can't have sheet A1 on project one and sheet A1 on project two. There is no perfect way right now, so experiment a little with dummy project files to see how the different methods might work for you.
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Thanks for the quick reply! I thought there might be a way to get around the duplicates issue, but I guess I was correct in thinking that 2 files is the way to go. It's a little late in the game to put the background in a separate file and link in (we're already in DD for the second floor), but I'll definitely remember that for next time. --M
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