Interior Design Best Practices

[jmarchese]

Hello everyone,

We are currently working on a big Revit project and are quickly approaching the point where Interior Designers will be adding their elements to the project. I've looked online and haven't found much on this topic, so I figured I'd ask the Forum. What have you found to be best practices when adding Interior Design elements? Some of the specific issues we are beginning to run into are:

Finish Plan Setup - We were originally going to create views using the Duplicate With Detailing function and do our Interior design work there, but I've read that some people create Interior Design worksets.

Wall Protection/Corner Guards - how have you dealt with showing these types of elements, and is it possible to lock them to walls?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim

[Dimitri Harvalias]

You'll want to do both.
Create a workset for ID and make sure it is off by default in all views (this will ensure that the ID stuff does not need to be turned off everywhere it is not needed)
Then create special ID views, plan, elevations, section or whatever they require. ID works on their views and adds elements to their workset. These views get issued as their own contract package.

Wall protection can be done in a number of ways. Detail linework, finish wall layers, wall hosted families or wall sweeps. Unless you need to see this in elevation or 3D views I would lean towards not modeling them but that's just me.
Corner guards can be locked to the corners of walls using the align command if they are detail components or by creating wall hosted families.
As always, more than one way to approach things and the method you select just depends on your needs and wants.

[Gordon.Price]

Corner guards can be locked to the corners of walls using the align command if they are detail components or by creating wall hosted families.

And those wall hosted families could be nothing but some 2D Symbolic Lines in the family. Super lightweight object that is visible only in plan, but still schedulable, locked to walls, etc.

Gordon

[jmarchese]

Thanks for your input on this, it's exactly what we were looking for!

Jim

[jcoe]

I would like to re-visit this topic, for we are starting down this path with our interiors group. My question is more to the point of how do others recommend interiors do their finishes such as floor patterns, wall patterns etc. My first thought is linework, but this seems so un-revit like. At the same time, it seems the most flexible.

How are others incorporating interiors into their Revit projects?

[Dimitri Harvalias]

I would tend to create 'finish' floor,ceiling and wall types. Ceramic tile, wood flooring, tile flooring etc. and apply them over the foors and walls. Each of the finish floors would be only the thickness of the material itself and would have a surface pattern that would correspond to the appropriate material. All this would be placed on a separate workset (see previous post) and could be scheduled separately.
For

[Dimitri Harvalias]

I would tend to create 'finish' floor,ceiling and wall types. Ceramic tile, wood flooring, tile flooring etc. and apply them over the foors and walls. Each of the finish floors would be only the thickness of the material itself and would have a surface pattern that would correspond to the appropriate material. All this would be placed on a separate workset (see previous post) and could be scheduled separately.
For inlay you can create different floors and use the join geometry option to merge them.

[jcoe]

Thanks Dimitri,

This was one method I was considering, but the snag I keep running into is that our interiors like to use off angles and curves in their floor patterning. The angles would be easy enought to handle with a custom surface pattern or a simple rotation. The curves however would require a little more customization and understanding of writing hatch patterns - more than I am capable of at the moment I'm afraid.

[sbrown]

For custom patterns and tile issues try various types of families to help. If 2d is all thats required create Detail components with various filled regions that can be copied, arrayed etc around easily in floor plan views and elevations. these can then be grouped and copied to other views. If 3d is required do the same thing but with a generic model family set to a floor finish subcategory. Give them material parameters and then you can place them in plan or elevation using the by face option. I use finish floors for most floors "big pattern" then these famiies to add the detail design.

[jyoungner]

I am not able to get a wall sweep for a tile base to show the surface pattern. Has anyone else had this problem?

Edit: wall patterning was turned off! Solved the problem!