Mirror Views

[BLUCKEGNRVD]

Working with multi-family residential projects, we have to create a lot of alternate unit plans. If the alternate unit only occurs in a mirrored orientation from the primary unit, we have to mirror (and copy) the alternate unit outside of the building to create the unit plan in the same orientation. This is not only very time consuming--it also leaves a lot more room for error because when the exterior wall/windows (not included in model groups) change, we have to apply the same changes inversely to the mirrored unit. This might not seem like a huge problem but when you have 80 different unit types and an owner that likes to tinker with units right up until construction, the problem compounds quickly.

If Revit would allow you to mirror views without mirroring the model, it would save an immense amount of time and errors. Please consider this!

[MichaelWarwick7522]

How we managed this was to create each unit as a separate Revit file and link them in to the site model, you can then mirror the links without messing up anything in the linked file. Also you can create annotate views in the linked model and then use 'by linked view' and the mirroring works really well (i.e. text stays the right way around), e.g. room names done once, dimensioning the same everywhere, we even did electrical and plumbing layouts in the linked model.

[BLUCKEGNRVD]

Interesting. That could actually be really helpful for buildings that have a drop. Since model groups can't be placed at different elevations, we usually have to create duplicate model groups (ex: "Unit 1A-B (+2'-0")"), which adds to the amount of times we have to make changes to a unit type. So we'll definitely experiment with your method; however, it seems like it could be annoying to have to open separate files everytime you need to edit a unit. If Revit would just let us mirror views, we wouldn't need a workaround..

[rbarbosa8DQGJ]

Hi Michael. I am trying to do that. I need a mirrored view. Could you post a video explaining your method?