Best tactic for 'xref'ing buildings?

[rodells]

I'm working on a multi-family project with numerous buildings on a campus. I am quite new to Revit, but most CAD applications would support modeling buildings separately and inserting instances, mirrored instances, etc. - so you can work on portions of the project at a time, leverage revisions, etc.

I am uncertain of the best way to structure something like this in Revit - I would typically model each building type separately, then place them on a master site plan. The 'families' approach, however, seems to be mostly component oriented.

I don't want to build a monster model because I just don't see the logical way to organize this. Or, is that just the way it has to be to have a whole project in a single .rvt file? Any helpful advice, tactical tips, etc. would be a real boost!

[papurajx]

Check the helpfile....

Help-->Tutorials-->Using Advanced Features-->Linking Building Models and sharing Coordinates

You can understand the concept of linked model better !!

[mmodernc]

Here we go again- there have been a few discussions of this topic-search threads on linking revit files.

[Steve_Stafford]

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I would typically model each building type separately, then place them on a master site plan.This is the intended route to accomplish what you want to do.

Here are a couple links: FIRST (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=11212)SECOND (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=11212)The help file recommendation is an excellent place to start your research followed by the tutorials.