seandburke
2010-09-01, 06:39 AM
I'm very curious to know if anyone has found good solutions for managing Revit drafting view-based details in a library. Having collected and vetted hundreds from existing projects, we now are discussing intelligent ways of presenting the graphics and meta-data for search and filtering based on criteria important to various users.
I know of no off the shelf solution that does this particular task. Sure there are content managers, but most do not deal with views, or project files at all for that matter, just component families. I've been down the road of a custom web-based solution for AutoCAD, and don't wish to go there again.
We are exploring some custom solutions configuring SharePoint or iDAM, but getting the search results' data into Revit then relies on manual means or some API. I was wondering if perhaps Vault is the right direction, since it now works (http://underthehood-autodesk.typepad.com/blog/2010/08/autodesk-vault-for-revit-users.html) well with Revit files. Anyone explored this yet? Time to set up a server.
If Autodesk had their own Revit Detail Library application or web solution, and worked for our needs, then I would not be struggling so much with this. Alas, we are still waiting.
Any suggestions are welcome.
I know of no off the shelf solution that does this particular task. Sure there are content managers, but most do not deal with views, or project files at all for that matter, just component families. I've been down the road of a custom web-based solution for AutoCAD, and don't wish to go there again.
We are exploring some custom solutions configuring SharePoint or iDAM, but getting the search results' data into Revit then relies on manual means or some API. I was wondering if perhaps Vault is the right direction, since it now works (http://underthehood-autodesk.typepad.com/blog/2010/08/autodesk-vault-for-revit-users.html) well with Revit files. Anyone explored this yet? Time to set up a server.
If Autodesk had their own Revit Detail Library application or web solution, and worked for our needs, then I would not be struggling so much with this. Alas, we are still waiting.
Any suggestions are welcome.