I've searched through old threads in the forums, and I would like to check the approach that I believe we are going to take on a new project. This elementary school project consists of single story buildings - 8 existing buildings to be modernized, 5 new buildings, 5 new relocatable buildings and complete site work. This entire campus will bid as a single project with a single CD package.
Each building will be drawn in an individual model file, along with all necessary views - plans, elevations, and sections (including the existing, demolition, and new construction phases for the modernization work). These building models will then be linked into a master file, rotated as necessary and laid out as they would be on the site plan. Each individual building floor plan, ceiling plan, etc. would then be a callout from this view.
The master file will contain the project documentation - all sheets, schedules, etc. Callouts for sections and details will be located here, so as to have only one location for details in the project. However, all keynoting (plans, sections, and elevations) will be placed in the individual model files and displayed in the corresponding master file views utilizing the view override "by linked view".
Questions:
1. How do I do the individual building / ceiling plans? If I do them as a callout from the master/site plan, then I cannot get the keynotes from the individual model file to show using the override "by linked view", since the only choices given me are elevations and section views. (They do show up in the master/site plan if I choose "by linked view", but I don't want them here.) Since the section markers are placed in the master/site plan, this isn't an issue with this type of drawing.
2. Do you recommend doing the site work and documentation in the master file, or linking the master file into an additional file that would contain this information?
3. We are currently drawing the individual model files so that the walls in each file are at 0 and 90 degrees. The buildings are in all sorts of different angles on the site. Do I put a true north in each model file? (I haven't worked with this before.) How do I deal with the coordinates.
4. The individual model files have 0'-0" set as the floor level, however they are at different elevations in relation to each other. I need to move the linked files up and down to the correct elevations in the master file. Will this be an issue?
5. Does all of this make sense? I feel like I am stepping off into a nightmare. I am wondering if this should all just be set up in a single project file but I am concerned about file size.