Drawing Project and Annotation Project, Anyone?

[Anonymous]

I have a quick question for the Revit world out there:

Does anyone ever manage two separate Revit files for a single project (one for all of the modeled content and another for annotation)?

Just wondering, thanks!

[RobDraw]

Never!

[pieterschiettecatte]

No. I imagine you would get in a lot of trouble with dimensions/tags etc losing their hosts on reloading.

[barthbradley]

Why do you ask? What are you thinking that would accomplish?  Just Curious.  

[ToanDN]

My firm had.  But they were still tagging and dimensioning in the model file and use Show By Linked View in the document file.  The only things were done in the document file are drafting views, schedules, legends, sheets and printing.

I do not recommend to go that route.

[Anonymous]

We have a person in our office that's really pushing to use this method.  I was just looking for anyone out there who's had experience with this setup and what the pro's and con's might be.

[Sahay_R · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous - Never heard of it.

Also - it sounds like it would be more trouble than it's worth. One of the beauties of Revit dimensioning is that geometry is driven by dimensions - so I can type a dimension and the associated geometry will adjust accordingly. Also - the joys of intelligent hosted tagging. Besides I would hate to have to switch models to edit or move certain objects.

Acceptable splits for Revit Projects are normally by discipline - 

Shell Model

Core Model

Fit-Out Model

MEP Models

Structural Model

Landscape Model