Explore the process of managing and updating complex Revit projects in a detailed step-by-step tutorial. Learn how to manage project links, update electrical and structural models, select individual files, and ensure the correct placement of elements.
Key Insights
- The tutorial explains how to update project links and ensure that elements, such as light fixtures, are placed at the right elevation using the Manage Links quick launch button.
- It is important to remove duplicate elements from different models, such as floor drains in plumbing and architectural models, to avoid confusion and redundancy in the project.
- The Revit Project Management tutorial also provides tips on hiding individual elements from the Revit link, which is useful when showing architectural drawings.
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Hello and welcome to the CAD Teacher VDCI video series for Revit Project Management. In the last video, we updated our link for our structural model, and we're going to go ahead and do the same thing with our electrical file. So you can see here these light fixtures are sitting below the ceiling, and we can tell that they're light fixtures two ways.
Number one, that's kind of the obvious thing that would be hanging from the ceiling, and number two, if we were to select it, you can see it takes the whole link. Well, we can actually use Tab as a selection option to select the individual file, and when I click on it, it takes a while, but it tells you here in your properties palette what you're looking at. So it tells me Plain Recessed Light Fixture, two by four.
So I want to make sure those are sitting in the right elevation, and we received an updated file, so we might as well use it. So I'm going to go to my Manage Links Quick Launch button, and I'm going to select my electrical model, click Reload From. I'm going to navigate to my BIM 304 folder, find my electrical folder, and I'm going to update with the electrical revised file.
Once I've got that selected, go ahead and click Open, and then I'm going to hit OK. And it looks like it moved the light fixtures in the right location, and they might just be off by just a little bit here. So it looks good.
So let's go ahead and check out our first-floor plan. So in my first-floor plan, I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on the restroom here, and you can see that I've got two floor drains shown in each restroom; one of them is coming from our plumbing model, which is correct, and the other one looks like it was a placeholder that we used in the architectural model. Now that the plumbing model is showing the floor drains, we can go ahead and remove them from the architectural model, because we don't want to show it twice.
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So I'm going to go ahead and remove the floor drains, just by selecting and hitting Delete on the keyboard. We have a similar problem with our toilet fixtures and our urinal, but in this case, we typically like to show these on the architectural drawings. So to hide individual elements like that, what we want to do is we want to go ahead and use the same Tab selection option that we had before.
So I'm going to go ahead and select my plumbing file, and then I'm going to use Tab to highlight that selection. So see how I've got the urinal here? So again, I'm going to select the plumbing model, and then I'm going to use Tab to select that urinal, like you see here. And now I can actually do a right-click, Hide in View, and Elements, and I can hide that individual element from the Revit link.
Okay, and it looks like we have something here that we probably don't need to be showing. Let's see what it is. This is a duplex outlet that looks like it needs to be adjusted, so we'll work on that with the electrical model.
Okay, so keep in mind if you've got double elements, you'll want to hide one or have somebody remove it from their model. In the next lesson, we're going to go ahead and look at how we can do clash detection within Revit.
