I use a sepatate construct for exisiting, demo and new. For demo walls I
just change them to standard style and move the wall to a demo layer. For
new walls I use a new wall style and layer.
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Wanted to see how other firms are handling these items. We do residential
remodeling work (from a small bath to a whole house in scale). We have need
for certain municipalities to provide both an existing plan and a demolition
plan (redundant huh?) along with the proposed plans. Since we typically
create an existing layout drafted plan (as a record file that doesn't get
modified ever) before starting to place walls for the existing construct
(those buggers are slippery!) we already have redundancy in the workflow. I
was thinking that without creating too much additional work we could easily
establish a few different layers and use wall cleanup groups to better
manipulate our walls in the views. Ie have A-Wall-Exist layer,
A-Wall-Exist-Remain layer, A-Wall-Exist-Demo layer and A-Wall-New layers.
Each wall would be assigned to the appropriate cleanup group (Exist, Demo,
New...) . It is confusing for our team at times to have an existing wall
also be a demo wall in another view- hence the need for the duplication.
Have you established wall tools (pallete based) that automatically map to
the correct layers and cleanup groups? Is this how it is supposed to work?
We would be using several constructs as well - Existing constructs,
Demolition constructs, Proposed constructs. In most instances we wouldn't
use the existing only construct-