Our company is falling into the age of MEP and I am the one that needs to bring us there. I have experience in Revit but only on the creation side. I have never had to actually link a model to incorporate my design before. What I want to accomplish is: Take the bloated Arch model I recieved from the Architect complete with worksets for several diciplines, blow it all away leaving just the building, floor plans, associated levels and title page. I want to be able to just open this file and bring up (example) 1st floor plan - 12th floor plan and start designing my HVAC and Plumbing. AThese are the steps I have taken but cannot achieve this goal of mine...
New Project Creation – Cleanup/Creation
This is (in my opinion), the most tedious part of this whole process. We are going to drill through the linked Architectural model and get rid of things that we, as MEP don’t care to see; things such as their notes, symbols, legend, sections, etc. we the are setting up views to match the Architectural plans (remember, entire project consistency is the key here).
Repeat steps 4 – 7 for all other plans that you anticipate you will need (such as Demolition, Plumbing, Fire Protection, etc.). Set the view template accordingly too.
PLEASE HELP. Im at whits end on this.
Hello, and welcome to the Discussion Groups!
I really don't recommend taking the Arch model and making it your own. That's going to be a severe pain (as I'm certain you know) to reestablish your MEP project standards. I would highly recommend linking the Arch model into a new Project. Use the Copy/Monitor tools to associate the Level in your MEP model to the Level in the Arch model. It might be a bit of a pain to have to recreate the Architect's Views from scratch, but once you are done with this Project, you can create a Project Template that you can use to start future Project, which will give you a good starting point. You can also use Transfer Project Standards to import the Project Information from the linked Arch model to your MEP model.
This is a very brief answer, so don't hesitate to ask if you need more info on specifics.
I was hessitant in working in the Arch model as well. I just created a local file and worked in that instead. That seemed to do the trick. Takes a little longer to set everything up but it flows better in the long run. Thanks for the input. Very helpful.