Multiple buildings

[justinlahey1]

Hi, I am starting a project for tafe and the brief is for 4 three storey townhouses and I would like them to be four seperate buildings, not side by side with party walls. What I'd like to know is can I do it all in the one project and create dependent views for each floor plan? Or is it best practice to work on each building in a different project then link them into a project which has the site plan? Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.

[ennujozlagam]

Its better to link each building in your site plan. Thanks

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi,

First of all , you can do the 4 buildings at one Revit file , no problem at all , but there is some points you have to take in considerations for taking the right discussion ...

* The level of detail of your project , as  this will have a strong impact on the file size which will control if you can do all the 4 buildings at one file or you have to create each building on a file for better performance and better file size.

* The Sheet Production: do you have sheets that compile the 4 buildings?? or all the sheets is per building ..

- If all the sheets is per building then you better go for a file for each building.

* Coordinates:

if you use the multi-files for multi-buildings , then you have t think about the linking way (origin to origin / center to center / shared coordinates)

* the number of architects that will work over the project .

If there is an architect for each building (for example) , so it is much better to create each building in a file , and after that link all in one master site.

I think these points are the most important ones as a brain storming at the start up of any project , to manage successfully what you will do after that.

I wish I helped you 🙂

[justinlahey1]

That's great, thanks so much now I know that both ways are appropriate depending on the situation. I will work as individual projects then link them to a master file because the four different buildings are 3 levels and all with different floor plans.

[chrisplyler]

Unless they're all at the same real elevation with the same Levels, I would not even consider building them all in one file.

A file for each building, and a master site file.

Each building can be modeled orthagonally to Project North in its own file. They each get linked into the site file, moved/rotated as necessary to place them in the right place/orientation on the site, and then gets a set of shared coordinates published from the site file back to the building file.

[dannyelachi]

Hello Dear, 

If I may add to the question. What happens if each has there own set of levels... wouldn't this complicate the file further? wouldn't you have unnecessary levels showing up everywhere? 

[ToanDN]

Create scope box for each building and assign the building's levels and Grids to that scope box.