Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Sheet Sort

As simple as this sounds there are different ways to set this up. This issue becomes especially important for workshared central file when more than one team member is working on the project.

 I have found one standard setting that should work for all projects during all phases. This would be to sort by Sheet Package (Package/Discipline/Sheet # Grouping/Sheet # (Ascending))

Granted there are a couple of sorting options that have their uses as a temporary setting but I recommend always reverting back to Sheet Package due to the fact that the project browser settings sync back to the central file and therefore affect other team members.

Of course play around with the settings and see what works best for you!

The standard example:



Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Create Revit Levels (FAST!)

Credit goes to following link, click to see full description:
http://www.cad-notes.com/create-revit-levels-using-array/

In short:
1.  In an elevation view, use the Array tool to copy the uppermost Level "up".

Note: Be sure the existing levels are named as desired to reduce the amount of editing required to the new level names. Revit makes a good attempt at automatically naming them based on the Level that you copy from.

2.  Convert level to active (floor plan) views with "Plan Views" command found under View tab > Create Panel > Plan Views.
Use to convert / create to floor, ceiling or area plans.

UPDATE:
While this work great in the native environment (rvt2013), the Array command is not available in the Conceptual Mass creation toolset.

Alternatively, I used the copy command with the multiple option selected, this did the trick fairly painlessly.