Displaying & Distinguishing Multiple Phases on Same Sheets

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

I am wondering if the forum can assist me with an ongoing building services (MEP and HVAC) design project I am undertaking, which I am looking to split the project into two phases. Rather than split the layouts into their respective phases, I wish to show both phases on the same sheets, clearly indicating (i.e. through different colours and/or half-tone) which elements are Phase 1 and Phase 2 respectively.

In the Manage>Phases tab, I have created additional phases named Phase 1 & 2 accordingly, but when I try to filter them in the Graphic Overrides feature to show Phase 2 in halftone, elements across the project revert to this, or disappear from view altogether. Is there another way I can approach this (I was thinking along lines of V/G and filters)?

Thanks in advance for any assistance offered.

- Chris 

[sujanc]

You can go with the filter option to segregate as well as to show different elements in same sheet as per there property.

[Anonymous]

Many thanks for the reply. I have one follow-up question; do I have to duplicate the elements (i.e. Supply Air Duct Phase 1/ Supply Air Duct Phase 2) and then add them both to the rule-based filters, with varying colours and/or transparency?

[sujanc]

Add one parameter then put all the phase 1 element and run the filter and put the remaining in phase 2. 

[hmunsell · Accepted solution]

Revit has 4 “Phase States” that are hard coded. You can have different Phase Filters and Phases, but the Phase States are set.

A wise instructor once told me “Revit cannot show you the future, it can only show you the past….”

General Phase Rules:

New = anything drawing in the current phase is considered “New” in that phase

Existing = anything previous to the current phase (all previous phases are considered Existing in the New phase)

Demolished = anything from the previous phase that does not exist in the current phase (demolish items are demo’d in the phase you want them to be removed from)

Temporary = anything that is created and removed during the current phase (something only there for that phase and removed prior to the next phase)

there are several ways to have 2 phases with equal priority at the same time is to trick Revit. The easiest way, and not my personal preferences, is to make 2 views. One showing only one phase and one showing only the other phases. Then you can place them both on the same sheet directly on top of each other.

I have also used Worksets in the past to accomplish this. Put both sets of items in the same phase but have a Phase 1 and Phase 2 workset and assign overrides to the Worksets.

If you have no Demolition in the project, you can use the Demolition Phase State as a “phase”. Set the Phase 1 items as Existing to be Demolished in Phase 2. Then set your view phase to phase 2, Show Demo & New. You can then change the Phase State overrides to show how you want.