dfi
2014-11-03, 08:16 AM
We have on ongoing debate here in our office about what is the best practice for creating views to be used on sheets in a 'Container' model. Our standard practice is to link all the models into a container model and then annotate in the views in this model. This works well can creates consistant documentation, but if objects are deleted then all the associated annotations are deleted as well. This also causes a lot of jumping between models and usually results in users having several Revit sessions open at the same time which has the potential to cause performance issues. Others feel that is easier and more efficient to create all the annotations in the linked model and then create the views using link by view in the container model. This gives the ability to model and annotate at the same time, but requires double the amount of work to set up the sheets. There can also be issues iof multiple models are linked together. I can see advantages and disadvantages in both methods. My preferance is to make all the annotations in the container model. How are others dealing with this issue? Our projects are too large to model in a single model so in any case we will be dealing with this issue.