I have an existing building, going to add insulation layer around existing walls, changing some of the doors and windows ( some are staying ). In the result I want to show new plan and demolished plan, quantities of demolished constructions, new walls, doors, windows, etc. The building is huge, so I dont want to do a lot of calculations by hand or manually change visibility every time.
As far as I can see, its not possible right now in Revit. In the forums, I could find 2 possible options, in any of them i still would have to do some part of work by hand. The options I found are :
1. Make existing wall and add the insulation as another wall with phase "New construction".
- How can I cut doors and windows in 2 hosts at the same time ? I cant join the wall layers, because their phases are different.
- I want insulation to wrap around doors and windows correctly, is there a way to do it with this method ?
2. Make existing wall and demolish it in next phase, add new wall with insulation in phase "New construction".
- I have some windows and doors that are going to stay the same, so can I define them so they show as existing in the old and the new wall at the same time ? Im going to make door schedules, so i dont want extra doors in my project.
- In the demolished constructions plan, exterior walls are going to show as demolished, even though they technically are going to stay, just insulated. Is there a way I can make them existing in demolished plan, for example, with another phase ?
- Or maybe I can not demolished the wall, but hide it in the new plan ? I dont care, that the wall is somewhere in the project, i dont need that quantity.
I cant believe Im the only one with this problem - how others are solving this ?
Please help me choose which method to use and resolve some issues I have listed ( or havent 😁 )
