What approach should be followed for large plant modeling with many buildings in Revit?

[ranga.narasimhan]

Hi all,

We have a project where we have several steel buildings. We want to model each building as a separate revit model.

I understand that when we link multiple revit files together, it is hard to position the origins at our wish.

Since we need each steel building to be located at a specific (plant) grid co-ordinates, what is the best approach to do this task?

If it was autocad/inventor, I would create a layout sketch and use it in all individual files as a common background/xref. So that, when they come together, they all go in the right place.

How to do this in Revit?

Thanks

Ranga

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

You can use shared coordinates in revit, this way you work with several files linked and oriented to a base point.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Set up the first linked file with main grids, levels, coordinates as well as templates, schedules and basic families (even your Autocad/Inventor as reference in this file). Then you will share this file with your team members; each member will create another file containing a building/zone which is detached from the 1st file. Then you can use an empty file to link everything together as a main file for coordinate, check clash and so on. Each model file also can be used as a link for the other model file to check surrounding areas when modelling.

[ranga.narasimhan · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Also, the following YouTube videos gave very good explanation about revit co-ordinate systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZL3tjNvVIY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVfZ5LIOK6o

I strongly going through videos sequentially for any beginner like me. Help a lot.

-Ranga

[ranga.narasimhan · Accepted solution]

Hi,

One more nice video link to watch. This one gives kind of real world issues that a professional BIM guy might come across.

-Ranga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKvIIJd9hSI