2 building files, 1 site survey

[patricks]

I have 2 building files for new buildings going on a single campus. I have a single CAD survey of the entire campus.

From what I understand from reading other posts, when you link in a CAD file and then acquire coordinates from it, then save, something is written back to the DWG file.

So what if I link it into one building file, locate it, acquire coordinates, save; and then do the same thing in the other building file? Will there be any conflicts with the different locations of the CAD file in each project?

[dhurtubise]

Youre right but i would create a site file, link the DWG and acquire the coords.
Then link the buildings and publish to them from the same site file.

[patricks]

That is how we would normally do it, but the attributes of this project (several other buildings on several different campuses) make it more sensible to keep the site info in each building file, since there will be minimal sitework associated with each building. There are 6 different buildings in all, scattered across different campuses, but the owner wants them all in one set. So rather than have 10-12 different Revit files, we chose to keep the site in each building file to keep the total number of files down to 6.

[dhurtubise]

Why would you have 12 files? 6 buildings and the campus site?

[patricks]

No, there are 6 buildings, and 5 sites. 2 of the buildings will be on the same site. We're keeping all the site info in each respective building file, and then all of our details, door/window types, etc. are in a separate file.

So we're at 7 Revit files right now. If I did separate site files for each site, we would have 12 files to deal with. 7 is already bad enough.

[dhurtubise]

You mentionned a campus, so why do you have separate sites for all buildings instead of having a campus?

[cliff collins]

Could you break up the Cad site file into individual/site specific cad files and link them into each Revit Building file, the create an individual toposurface in each bldg. file?

Just a thought....

cheers

[wmullett]

I'm big on keeping the site as a seperate file. In your case, I would have had 5 site files and they could all be linked into a master site file.

[patricks]

You mentionned a campus, so why do you have separate sites for all buildings instead of having a campus?

It's actually 5 campuses, spread out across a county. These are school renovations for a county school district.