mass/batch production puzzle in Revit....

[Martin P]

Ok anyone got a work around for this -

in autocad we did this, (yeah yeah, I know a great cliche to start a sentence - LOL)

we have house type "A" "B" "C" etc etc they are being built on 5+ different sites, and the client insits on having drawings titled for each specific site, which frankly is bloody pain in the neck and as far as I can see serves no real purpose. But thats what they want the exact same drawing apart from the titles. So in Autocad we set up tabs with the title blocks for each job and that was it, changes in model space reflected in all the jobs, the revision history was also in model space.

I cant have the same view in Revit on more than one sheet , and I cant have duplicated elevations, sections etc either - and this would not help with redoing the same thing over and over anyway. How do I get round this. I dont think there is a solution is there?.

I cant see any option other than exporting to autocad to doing it the way we have in the past, which wont work properly either as the pcp files that revit produces are pile of nonsense so that isnt really a solution - or the other option is to have change the title box manually each time I print a set for each different site??

can I do this with parameters somehow? maybe running a journal file that opens a base file and changes or adds the site details I need??? or something simpler, this is a real problem I am facing at the moment so any solutions would be good!!!

Thanks
Martin

[Allen Lacy]

Only way I know to do it would be to do a "save as" and change your titleblocks and site info in each file. I know it doesn't help with batch plotting, but ......

[mail1774]

From what I understand is that you can duplicate plans, ceilings, 3D views, and sections, but not elevations... (just right click on your plan or section in the project browser and either 'duplicate' or 'duplicate with detailings' then rename the view and slap it onto your sheet... this should allow you to place two of the same view on the same sheet. Then play around with the crop region to focus on what you want. All copies are linked in real-time I 'assume' so changing one changes them all.

The only down side to this is you will have many many copies of the particular view you made and depending on your project size... this can get overwhelming...

Hope this helps...

[PeterJ]

Use a series of containing files and link your building into them? This won't bring over any annotation though so it probably wont work.

[sbrown]

Why not just set up different title blocks with the same name in diff folders(ie titleblk a, b,c etc.) then load them in as needed before printing, make plt files so you have a record of them.

[Steve_Stafford]

I'm with Scott on this one...I thought the same thing. 5 sets of titleblocks, switch em out and plot.

The site plans should/could go on the "right" sheets since they are different?

A second thought (or third)...project data if different will need to be embedded in a titleblock to work with this notion.

[Scott D Davis]

This is where phasing for sheet info could come in handy. You could set up a phase for each different option, and the titleblocks would display depending on the phase. Switch to Phase A, it prints with a Phase A title block, and prints the site sheets assigned to Phase A. Switch to Phase B, titleblock changes, print Phase B.

[Steve_Stafford]

Oh sure get MartinP all excited about something he "might" be able to do! But seriously that's an interesting idea.

Project data would need to be "phaseable" too...

[Martin P]

Why not just set up different title blocks with the same name in diff folders(ie titleblk a, b,c etc.) then load them in as needed before printing, make plt files so you have a record of them.

Seems like the best idea that, I have got 3 sheets per house type, plans, sections and founds, views and elevations - all ahve the same drawing number w100, w200, w300 - I can just make the sheets "dumb" with text filling in all the fields, including the project address..... excellent thank you. there was a thread somewhere on this board about using plt files, will search it out. Thanks for the pointer.

The solution from Revit to this type of thing I hope will be 6.0 and if not it has to come later that you CAN have a view on more than one sheet - OR even better, simple thing really that if you duplicate a view with detailing - the detailing is "linked" through the views (you know, like an xref !!!) where the view really 100% is duplicated. at the moment it is pointless really to do this, as you still end up having to edit 2+ views because the detailing doesnt update.

cheers guys, will set that up today......

Martin.