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Disappointing not to hear back from the dev team yet.  I thought I'd take some time to describe how much extra work is required by us interior architects to use Revit as a design tool. 

 

In the following example, imagine a large hotel project, where the architect has already been working on the model for 4 years.  We're hired to design the lobby, restaurant, bar, ballroom, meeting rooms, and club.  There are two public restroom that we are going to design.  The architect has drawn restrooms but it's a placeholder for permitting purposes.  The kitchen is drawn but we need to make changes since we've changed the restaurant program a bit.  So we've basically wiped out everything on level 1 except the BOH offices....

 

In a perfect world:

  1. Add selected elements of a linked model to a selection filter
  2. Apply filter and make not visible
  3. Draw whatever you want in the blank space and the rest of the linked model remains up-to-date.
  4. Eventually, after the architect adds the new architectural wall and doors following our new design, delete the filter.

In this world:

  1.  Two modes are required.  The current arch linked model and a custom arch linked model
  2.  Make copy of current arch model to use as our new custom linked model.
  3.   Create a new workset in custom model for items to remove and close workset so items aren't visible.
  4.   Assign all items (walls, casework, ceiling, doors, etc) that we want to hide to the new workset.
  5.   For curtain walls, if we need to add or move a door, we must hide remove the entire curtain wall.
  6.   This is the worst part....The architect will update the model from time to time.  They don't use BIM360 so they post updates every week, so we need compare models every week AND make updates to our custom linked model.  In order to do that:
    1. link the current arch model into our custom model.
    2. create view template that shows all current model elements in a different color.
    3. Identify elements (on 3 separate levels) that have changed and copy new elements into custom model.  Select the new items in the linked model (very tedious method using ctrl+pick to select individual elements. can't use window selection), then copy, then paste "in same place".  Delete or move other elements.
  7. Draw whatever you want in the blank space and repeat step 6 every week.
  8. Eventually, after the architect adds the new architectural wall and doors following our new design, we'll reload the link from the current model.

 

See the difference?  This is only HALF the reason why Revit is not popular with ID.  Don't get me started about not being able to apply wall finishes to a linked model!  

 

 

The ID discipline needs some focused attention and dedicated tools.