Anuncios
Welcome to the Revit Ideas Board! Before posting, please read the helpful tips here. Thank you for your Ideas!

Allow me to work with a linked model

If I'm linking in a model with bearing walls into my structural model, I can't attach anything to them.  I can't put a wall footing under it, I can't attach a beam to it.  All I can do is have it displayed.  I can't put a thickened slab edge onto a slab or floor thats from the linked in model.  Can we change that?  Let me work with those common items between the models so that we don't need to do the work twice.

Comentarios

Thats the way how linked model works. For example - when HVAC guy links my architectural model, i dont want to let him move my walls, doors. The same situation, i should not change his ducts or whatewer switchboards.

Anonymous

@vojtech.zufnicek did you even read my post or are you just responding to the title?  I'm not asking for the ability to modify someone else's model thats linked into mine, I'm asking to be able to work with it.  Like being able to attach a beam to sit on a bearing thats linked in, or putting a thickened slab edge onto a floor from a model thats linked in...  basically being able to use linked in objects as host objects.  basically what I said in the original post.

Anonymous

This is why there is Copy/Monitor....so you can create elements that were duplicated from a linked file and use it for your own.

Granted...One shouldn't have to duplicate elements, but unfortunately some categories have to be.

Anonymous

@Anonymous copy/monitor has its own sets of issues, and there are limited elements that even could be copy/monitored.  Even if it worked perfectly its still extra work that needs to be done.  And thats kinda my point, lets reduce duplicating elements, reduce doing work on something thats already been done.

Anonymous

A way around it all is to work in a single model vs separately.

 

This works great if structural and architectural are in the same building, but the other option is BIM 360.

Anonymous

@Anonymous  dude... I'm so tired of work arounds... it seams every issue I have the answer is "theres a work around to fake it in".  why can't there be a solution, why can't it be fixed to work instead of adding yet another work around to my long list of work arounds

Anonymous

Well...don't know what to tell ya.  Not all workarounds are a fake, it just isn't documented.

 

But I have gotten by for 15 years without even using the Copy/Monitor function...and I work in both architecture and structural. So hey...good luck with your idea.

Anonymous

@Anonymous well 6 votes... by far the most attention of anything else I've ever posted here... but I'm a pessimist and think autodesk just created this as an easy place to ignore complaints


Anonymous

Don't doubt it... One of my ideas got merged with another and between the two of us there are over 1000 votes.  It's a "Future Consideration" but Dual Monitor Support with less than that was Implemented. Some are "Under Review" and some that I thought were a great idea got 6 votes.

 

But things can happen....I thought having a scale on a drawing that changed as you zoomed in and out was a dream.  A friend of mine created a rough add-in, less than 24 hours after the post,  that did just that, but he used a banana for the scale image.  It's a 4' banana. lol