Supply Revit file to client best practice.

[Anonymous]

We are new to Revit. We are creating a foundation plan for them. What is the best practice for delivering them something that is easiest to include in their Navisworks file. Should we just create the plan with grid lines and let them insert and rotate as necessary? Or, do we ensure that our project base point is the same relative distance and direction from our model as theirs.

[Anonymous]

We are new to Revit. We are creating a foundation plan for them. What is the best practice for delivering them something that is easiest to include in their Navisworks file. Should we just create the plan with grid lines and let them insert and rotate as necessary? Or, do we ensure that our project base point is the same relative distance and direction from our model as theirs.

[cbcarch]

A few questions, so I can try to give the best answer:

1. Are you the only discipline providing Revit model(s)?

2. If so, then leave PBP (Project Base Point) and SP ( Survey Point) at their default locations in Revit. Export the NW file and send to them.

Follow up with communication asking if the file and position are working according to their needs.

3. If not, find out who/how many other Revit models there are, and how the team is setting up file positioning/rotation--i.e. if they are using Shared Coordinates. This may include Civil engineering/surveyors cad files, which may give datum for sea level values of grades, finish floors, rotation, x/y/z coordinates of the Site and footprint of the bldg. etc. If they are using Shared Coordinates, you will need to aquire these from a Master Site File,

or perhaps from a cad survey.

In other words, you can't act in a vacuum and expect to give them the "best results" if you don't know all the rules.

This is why a BIM Execution Plan is a good idea when working in Revit in a multi-discipline team and having someine create an "aggregated model" in Navis

for coordination/clash detection, etc. There should be a very clear plan and all team members should be on the same page.

[cbcarch]

A few questions, so I can try to give the best answer:

1. Are you the only discipline providing Revit model(s)?

2. If so, then leave PBP (Project Base Point) and SP ( Survey Point) at their default locations in Revit. Export the NW file and send to them.

Follow up with communication asking if the file and position are working according to their needs.

3. If not, find out who/how many other Revit models there are, and how the team is setting up file positioning/rotation--i.e. if they are using Shared Coordinates. This may include Civil engineering/surveyors cad files, which may give datum for sea level values of grades, finish floors, rotation, x/y/z coordinates of the Site and footprint of the bldg. etc. If they are using Shared Coordinates, you will need to aquire these from a Master Site File,

or perhaps from a cad survey.

In other words, you can't act in a vacuum and expect to give them the "best results" if you don't know all the rules.

This is why a BIM Execution Plan is a good idea when working in Revit in a multi-discipline team and having someine create an "aggregated model" in Navis

for coordination/clash detection, etc. There should be a very clear plan and all team members should be on the same page.