Revit workflow

[i.penava]

Hello everyone.

I have a question regarding workflow with Revit and site construction.

In the project I have one house that is finished, but now I need to make whole neighborhood around with same houses. In one part the houses are same but they need to be rotated and mirrored. I tried just copy paste whole house and then rotate but that does not work. 

I made a new Revit file with surface and put houses there and now I need to figure out how can I put almost the same houses in that file (just to rotate them in other direction for 90 degrees). I tried with linked file and that works for rotating the house but I need to make some adjustments for that rotated house by adding patio that goes until the street but I cant do that in linked file because there is still the same rotation as before I linked the file. 

Here is also a picture of the issue.

I would really like to hear if someone can give me some solutions to this one or workflow or anything because I would like to learn this so I can work properly for other projects. 

[syman2000]

What you are doing is how I would approach it - use rotating and mirroring for the link house. However if you need to add patio or any sitework, I would simply do it in the current model. Afterward you group those patio & sitework and then copy it to other rotated/mirrored link house.

[barthbradley]

Are you saying that you are Linking your Building into the Site Plan and then copying the Linked Building to different locations, with different orientations, on the Site?   Are you setting up Shared Coordinates for each Link/Copy? Publishing the Site Coordinates to each Link/Copy -- and Publishing to a uniquely-named Share Site (not Internal/Default)?   And afterwards, are you placing hardscape in the Site Plan, such as driveways, for each Link/Copy? If so, I'm very familiar and practiced with this workflow.  Where exactly are you having issues?  It's not clear to me from what you wrote.   

[i.penava]

Well, this was my workflow, I had the house (someone else did the begging of the construction) then I took it over. I needed to make some changes to the construction and some interior design and after that, I needed to make the exterior. I made one big surface with a patio and road along with the house. After that, I needed to do a little bit more of the surrounding, and because the place where that house is going to be built will be in the park(something like a neighborhood) with more same houses in a row (but not connected, every house has own garden). So what I did was: I copied the house but just external parts not with the furniture (normal command copy-paste) and then put more houses around that one and it looked good. But in one corner of the area where the houses are going to be built, they are almost the same just rotated by 90 and mirrored. I tried to do that with the same house that I multiple times copied but it did not work (the roof could not be rotated and some walls also). So what I did next was I saved the house as a separate Revit file and then linked it to this existing one and also I did rotation and mirroring. And now I need to connect normally those houses to the road and because they are linked I need to place half of the road in that linked file and half of the road in the big one so they connect (but the line is visible). For me, this kind of workflow is not good but I don't know how should I do this better, especially if I want to change something on the house I would need to change every house separately because I just copied it. 

Can you please help and try to explain the right workflow for doing this. I would like to learn it for other projects when I have the same blocks of houses. I would appreciate any kind of help.