Detail Library System
Hello!
I wanted to suggest that along with other content management tools from other ideas, revit should also incorporate a "detail library" This would include several things
- Cloud Library of all company libraries of details
- Project level Detail Library
- Ability to share so that manufacturers could create and share their details in some form of exchange, allowing companies to connect those details to a project and have them easily accessible
- Easily connect details to families, not just by nesting (which can be done to some degree now) but also by connecting it in a view in the family. There is likely some complexities to consider here, but the general idea is that if a family for a specific door manufacturer is brought into a project, that door will bring the correct details into the project library.
- tagging, library system and other organization tools at project level and company level.
- potentially an alternative to drafting views. something that can be edited in the model, but also be synced to a project library. The idea would be that anytime a detail is brought into a revit model in your project, the detail would be put into the project folder and visible to "add" to any other model in the project. This detail would not be a simple drafting view, but instead a sort of family that has special tags to tag components, or can have text built in. In addition there could be a way to "instance" it. Essentially editing it in project without affecting the main detail. This would be at an element level in an editing interface similar to groups where you could add or remove elements from the main detail (which would stay synced) or create new elements for this project and save it as an altered instance in the detail file. This could be very helpful for instances where you may have 5 details that are very similar but might have a tiny alteration such as a different weather striping or sill. On top of that it would allow other users to easily see the alterations when they are searching for details, and what models those are in.
- Data in the project (ACC) that can report what details are in what buildings, and which aren't being used anywhere.
- A master detail "set" that is created based on the data above, allowing a PM to review all the details in a project, (by discipline or multiple if desired) in one easy go using the markup, approval, and issue systems built into BIM 360.
- approval/request system to add things to the main company library, or the project library if being made within a model and not pulled from the library originally. All details and their alterations will have have a status stamp when hovered over so they can see if this alteration or detail has been vetted and approved by a PM.