Please share how you split worksets. . .

[photography67836]

We are finding that we have to often change the way the worksets are assigned in a project, and feel there must be a better way. We'd love to hear how others are separating worksets in a project, particularly multi-leveled commercial or residential ones. By the way, using worksets has been getting better - and we are actually starting to like them!

For the project we're on now (4-level care centre with residences & offices), we did worksets for:
- all the items on each floor incl. windows/doors (so that one could work on an entire floor)
- one for exterior walls (since they generally go from ground to top ot building)
- one for floors and pads
- one for furniture
- one for roofs
- one for exterior and site items
- one for stairs
- and a couple other misc. ones.

Thanks for any input,

[photography67836]

Whoops, posted in the wrong place...

(edit: moved to worksets forum)

[Wes Macaulay]

Worksets aren't needed like they used to be, but are good for

visibility - other people can give their own reasons, but as an example I'll tell people to create worksets for furniture that are off by default; foundations can be on their own workset for creating foundation plans... the foundations can be turned on and off where needed, etc.
demand loading - selective open of worksets while opening the local file can save load time and improve performance a whole bunch
Your workset list is right on IMO. I suggest the following: Exterior Walls, Interior Construction, Structure (includes columns, beams and floors), Furniture, Site, Planting (trees can be a pain sometimes). And if you're using groups make sure you either have a dedicated workset for all the groups, or a workset for each group (unit) type. For larger projects break up the project into groups of worksets for geographic portions of the project... for example, each wing of a hospital. Then you'd open the worksets just for the wing you're working on.

Pre Revit 6 more worksets were better. Now less is better!

[aaronrumple]

My current project - 75,000 recreational facility is setup as such:

Architectural Shell (Building Envelope)
Architectural (Vertical Elements spanning 2 floors)
Foundations (Floors for spread footings and column pads.)
Floor Slabs
Gym (Interiors of east wing of project)
Fitness (Interiors of fitness areas)
Indoor Pool (Interiors of pool)
Landscape
Meetings Rooms (Interiors of Upper Level)
Shared Levels and Grids
Track (Running track spanning over several interior areas)
Structural (Steel Framing)
Civil
Mechanical
Imported Model Drawings (AutoCAD imports shared among multiple views)
Pool House (A separate small outbuilding)

Typically we have 3 people working on the project...

[sbrown]

Basically Divide up by the team organization.

While standards are a good place to start, ie Arch Core and Shell, interior partitions, Site, Entourage, etc. I find if you can set it up by team member responsibilities, the workflow is better.

[jbalding48677]

Here is a PDF we created to help guide our offices in setting up worksets. Feel free to use it as a jumping off point.

[Wes Macaulay]

Shoot - that's great Jim. Thanks for that!