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I, and virtually everyone else at my firm, needs to be able to do this too.  I work at a large firm which does big projects.  My last one was a 2 million square foot hotel and convention center.  The teams are large enough and the data large enough that it makes sense to break the architectural model into parts.  It has become pretty typical for us to break out the exterior envelope into one model separate from the interior planning parts of the building.  This is because we tend to staff up the job with an experienced architect (and team of less experienced architects under him/her) who is in charge of developing the envelope and associated waterproofing details while another senior architect and his/her team is in charge of the planning.

 

To make modeling smoother and to minimize the number of models a person might have to open to complete a single task, we tend to put the sheets and annotative elements thereon associated with each team's scope in their model.  For example, the exterior elevation and wall section sheets live in the exterior envelope model while the floor plan and RCP sheets live in the interior planning model.  We experimented with all of the sheets living in one model, but that inevitably led to one having to open both models to make simple edits to a drawing.

 

Did I mention our projects are sometimes millions of square feet.  It can take upwards of 15 minutes to open a model sometimes.

 

We usually will set up the views on our sheets so that the annotative info from the other referenced model comes through using the "by linked view" feature in visibility/graphics.

 

One challenge comes when we want to show the wall section markers from the exterior model in the plan sheets of the interior model.  Elevation symbols are the same problem.  Revit simply drops these reference markers from the linked views.  They don't show up at all.

 

What I want is simply for the host model to display these references exactly as they appear in the linked model view at the time that link is loaded, either when first opening the host model or by reloading the link.

 

Our kluge solution to date is to set up special views that show only the references, then export those to CAD immediately before going to print for a milestone submission.  Those CAD views are then referenced into the host model views.  This works, but is pretty restricting to our workflow, is tedious to maintain, and adds another task on an already stressful day.  If you've ever issued a large set of drawings with lot's of consultant sheets as well as specifications, you know what I mean about "issue day" being a stressful day.

 

We too tend to have "standard details" sheets that have drafting views that need to be referenced in multiple models.  This is a little different problem, in my opinion, which I think intuitively would be handled by allowing views from linked models be selected from the "reference other view" command, like is suggested in this thread - http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/view-reference-to-sheet-view-in-a-linked-file/idi-p/648504...

 

Dimensions from linked models are a similar but separate problem that I will address in a different topic sometime.

 

I am voting this one up.