Discover crucial insights into the process of Revit Project Management with the CAD Teacher VDCI series. This article goes in-depth into the intricacies of managing and correcting electrical models, including the use of worksets and coordinating elements within a model.
Key Insights
- The Revit Project Management process involves importing an electrical model, creating a workset for the file, and using these worksets to open specific areas for work. This allows for a more focused and efficient workflow.
- During the process, a visual scan of the model is crucial to identify any mistakes or corrections. This includes checking for issues with the location of fixtures relative to other elements, and ensuring elements like structural beams and joists are correctly placed.
- The management process also involves updating the model frequently with revised versions. This includes using functions like 'reload from' to use the current link's properties and reload from another option, ensuring that the model stays accurate and up-to-date.
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Hello and welcome to the CAD Teacher VDCI video series for Revit Project Management. For the midterm, you should have imported an electrical model that was provided and also created a workset for that file. Where we left off, we were using our worksets to open only certain areas that we wanted to work on, so let's go ahead and make sure we have all of those open at this time.
Okay, so I'm going to go down to my workset settings, and as you can see, I've still got a few that aren't opened yet, so I'm going to go ahead and open those up. All the ones that say no, I'm going to switch to yes, and once I've got them all checked, looks good, I'm going to go ahead and hit okay, and now all those other extra worksets have been loaded. So what we're going to do now is we're going to take a visual scan of the model and see if we can find any mistakes or corrections that need to be made so we can notify our design consultants on what corrections to be made.
So I'm going to start off with ceiling coordination, so I'm going to go to my first floor ceiling plan. Okay, and looking around, it looks like there might be some issues with my lighting and its location relative to some of the mechanical diffusers. Also, this is kind of a bad situation when we've got it not quite within the grids, so that's a something that we'll want to look at.
Okay, you can see in the offices it's even worse, so those are some things that we'll have to notify our consultant to fix. Okay, let's go ahead and take a look at the second floor plan. So this was a mistake that we noticed early on.
You can see how the framing is sitting up into the slab, so if I were to go ahead and look at my section here, we can see that it is actually sitting within the flooring, and this is a concrete topping slab right here, so we'd want the structural beams and the joists here to be to be sitting in the same plane, and as you can see here, the beam's in the right location, but the joists are not, so we'll need to have them fix that as well. And so we've received that revision, so what we'll need to do is we'll need to update our model to match that. So what we'll want to do is we're going to want to reload our Revit link with the updated model.
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Okay, so from my Windows Explorer, I'm going to go to my BIM 304 folder, and then I'm going to go into my structural folder, which is where I'd want to download the 304 structural revise file, and I'll make sure it's there. So you can see I've got the original one and then the new one as well. So what I want to do is I want to go to my manage links, and this is exactly why I made that quick launch toolbar button, because now I can just quickly go to it, and I can see here that BIM 304 structure is loaded in, and I've got a few options in here.
I can remove it, which will remove it from the model, and it'll also get rid of any visibility and graphic overrides that I've done, and also its placement on the work set. If I unload it, that will simply just unload it from the model, and then it can be reloaded back in. Reloading is just going to refresh it from its current location, and that that happens automatically whenever we open or close the file.
And then reload from, which is the option we're looking for, will allow me to use this current link's properties and reload from another option. So I'm going to go and click reload from. When I click reload from, what I want to do is I want to go and use my BIM 304 shortcut, go to my structural folder, and then I'm going to select BIM 304 structure revised.
Click open. This might take a minute. Okay, it's telling me that same error that we got last time when we loaded it in, and that's fine.
Hit okay, and then I'll hit okay again, and you can see it's now a correct version of our file.
