Renovation Mode

[BBP-Arch]

Anyone use renovation mode?

Seems great in concept...

I messed with it a little, but I had to go through every item in my drawing (both AEC and regular entity) and change its display properties to colors that are our standards...it took quite a while. Plus, it seems to add entities to put them on layers that signify Existing, Demo & New...

...a proper tutorial on this one may be in order...

I'd be interested in anyone else's experience with this....

Scott

[pedroaroso]

Odin Cary wrote two excellent articles about this subject:http:

http://www.archidigm.com/

[David_W_Koch]

Paul Aubin's ACA book for 2011 has an Appendix with an exercise on Renovation Mode.

I have not used it for production work.  To get this to work, you really need to plan using it from the beginning of a project; I would think it would be hard to add it part way through.  It also assumes that everything you already have in the file when you start is your existing conditions prior to any work.  Another problem for me is that my firm uses an explicit "-N" status field for new work, and the Renovation Mode feature does not deal with that (ie, it will not strip off the "-N" and make it "-D" or "-E", it just appends the "-D" or "_E").  If you can adapt your work flow to match that expected, it is a pretty neat tool.

[ascotti]

Archidigm has great content.  But, this is false advertisement and misdirecting to those actually looking for an explanation of renovation tools here.  This is nothing more than a cheap plug.  You must work for Archidigm.

[John.W.Mumaw]

Well I just checked and it took me less than a minute to find the two articles that Pedro mentions "Renovation Extension" and "Renovation Extension - part 2" on the Archidigm site.  And neither Pedro nor I work for Archidigm.