Revit Phasing

[MBBIM]

As i do mainly renovation projects i find that phasing in Revit is not easy. It gets confusing when you have to be carefull not to draw in the wrong view. I and up with many views with floorplans, sections and elevations. For now i just rename the whole existing file to new and work in that. What our your best practices ? 

[JasonKunkel · Accepted solution]

• Have a strong naming convention for views
• Create a Project Browser organization that groups views by phases
• View Templates for working views that have distinct colors for different phases to clue users into what phase the view is
• Don't forget that just b/c you create an element in the wrong phase you can easily change its phase in its Properties

[barthbradley]

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@MBBIM wrote:

 For now i just rename the whole existing file to new and work in that. What our your best practices ? 

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Are you saying that your workaround is to create and work in another, different project?  That wouldn't even make my list of "practices".  That would be a nightmare.  

[ToanDN]

- You need different views/view templates for different phasing drawings: existing or as-built, existing and demolition, new plan with existing to remain, completion.  

- pay attention to the view's phase and phase filter, don't ever model and place elements in a demolition view.

- you can group views in your project browser by phases

[barthbradley]

....most of us, if not all of us, work with multiple Project Views of the Model.  The "Best Practice" is always to start with a naming convention - just as @JasonKunkel mentioned.  It's at the top of his list - as well as ours.  Only a naming convention can help you navigate between views.  Just keep your eyes on the road.   

[RSomppi]

I use temporary view overrides to minimize the amount of working views needed for phasing. This and a number of well designed view templates can reduce the number of working views tremendously.

[MBBIM]

Yes i will give it a try with some test projects. Giving the phases a distinctive colour helps. And i need to reorganize my project browser. It still does not feel intuitive manually changing from phase  to phase by changing the views. I also heard that rooms give problems with phases. 

[mhiserZFHXS]

Rooms don't give problems with phases, they are just only set to one phase. Some people like to complain about this but I understand why Autodesk has it set up the way they do. Giving rooms a phase parameter is begging for errors when walls are deleted/added and rooms aren't updated.