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    Default Existing Vs New plans and equipment placement

    I am new to Revit. Please forgive me if I am having problems with something that you all do easily on a day-to-day basis.

    I have a plan that I am working on that someone else is creating the building. I am populating a room with equipment.

    There is an "as exists" plan an thee is a "new layout" plan.

    about ninety percent of my existing equipment is just going to be repositioned in the new plan.

    In AutoCAD I might have created a block with attributes and places occurrences of it on two different layers.

    I set up two worksets and copied the objects from the existing to the new workset.

    It almost seems like there should be a better way. Now I have two separate "Box A's". In Autocad there would have been one block that had two inserts.

    In Revit that link at the block level is severed the way I did it.

    This is kind of a fourth dimensional thing. It's the identical piece of equipment in two places in time.

    How do Ya'-all handle this?

    (Tags can be too short, 4D didn't fly, 3D is a pretty common term)

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    Default Re: Existing Vs New plans and equipment placement

    You have one plan in the existing phase, a plan for demo, and a plan for new construction. No need for worksets. On the Demo plan you can demo out the equipment that will not remain in the same place. You don't have to show your demo plan on sheets if you don't want to, but the equipment that does stay will show a different lineweight than those that are new in the new construction phase.
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