Copy Model into New Template

[kjskoog]

Awhile back I received a Revit project that was completed by another firm. It is rather large. Since then we had other employees add quite a bit of information to it. I  want to grab everything in the model and drop it into our office template without losing anything. What is the best way to do this? I tried to upgrade their model with our template but it got messy. Lost a lot of information.

Kory Skoog

PM/BIM Manager

[Ilic.Andrej]

I suggest doing this:

1: Open the received project and a brand new project with use of your company template file

2: Go back to the received project and purge unused (manage/purge unused)

3: While working in the received project go to manage and transfer project standards. Transfer everything from the newly created project. Overwrite standards if needed...

4: Save the received project. It should contain the data that was received, but also the data that is defined in your company template file.

[hmunsell]

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@kjskoog wrote:

I  want to grab everything in the model and drop it into our office template without losing anything.

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so you want to copy all the model content from one model to a project file started from your company template, correct? You can link it in and then Bind it...

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@kjskoog wrote:

I tried to upgrade their model with our template

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did you try the Transfer Project Standards from the Manage ribbon?

[barthbradley]

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@kjskoog wrote:

 I  want to grab everything in the model and drop it into our office template without losing anything.

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Not Possible. What would that specifically accomplish anyways? If you can explain, maybe we can offer a solution/workflow to achieve that.  Changing the template doesn't do much after-the-fact.  

[kjskoog]

Just getting frustrated with having 2 different firms templates contradicting each other. I did transfer project standards first and went to replace all the other firms callouts, annotations, dimension styles etc with ours. Tried to add our view templates and did not help. Lineweights are different. I am at the point to have an intern have our template and the project in question open on two different windows  and enter in our lineweights manually.  I even changed the default callout symbols to ours but it always revert back the other firms standards. With the amount of time I am spending on this I thought there might be a better way. I would love a replace and delete option.

Kory Skoog

PM/BIM Manager

[martijn_pater]

Do you want to keep the sheets/views or something in the other file? if not, why not just link the geometry from the file and bind into your own project with your own template?