bpoppe
2016-01-07, 12:43 AM
Ok, lets see how simple I can make this. (probably not very)
We have a site with multiple multi-family buildings (two story).
Each building's revit file is just the envelope and unit demising walls. The building file contains housing units, linked in and copied.
There are only two housing unit plans in each building and these plans are repeated multiple times within the building. The housing units contain interior walls and interior doors.
The building file has the exterior doors, the interior doors are contained within the referenced linked housing unit files.
I'm not looking to consolidate all of the buildings into a master door schedule (though that's an interesting conversation, but for a different thread).
I'm looking at how to create a door schedule for each building that uses the intelligence built into the model.
As an example, Building C has 12 housing units (six are Type A and six are Type B). We have developed a Type A Revit model and a Type B Revit model and they are linked into Building C.
Unit Type A has 12 doors, numbered 01-12. Unit Type B has 12 doors, numbered 01-12. The doors are matching in use between Type A and B units. i.e. Door 04 is an identical door leading to the bathroom in both units.
Looking at Unit A and B placed in Building C there are then identical doors numbered 01-12 in each unit. I don't like the duplication and realize I could move the Type B door numbers up to 20-32 but that doesn't solve the overall problem.
If I was to schedule the doors as the Units sit in the building model there would be 12 lines showing door number 01 and 12 lines showing door number 02 and on until the end. I don't like that.
I could add a quantity column to the schedule and have only 12 lines in the schedule, one each for doors 01-12 respectively, and the Quantity line would read 12 for each door. (is the quantity an automatically calculated parameter or just text?). That could work if the quantity was auto-calculated. I don't want to rely on "dumb" text in the schedule.
I could make the doors A01-A12 and B01-B12 and combine that with the Quantity parameter and the count would be only 6 per door number.
We've worked really hard at making the buildings work with repetitive units. I do not want to explode or copy the units into the building model just so I can renumber and schedule the doors as 01-144.
I have no illusions we're so special as to be the first to have tackled this problem.
What are the best practices for scheduling these doors which reside in revit models which are linked in and repeatedly copied in our Building model?
Thanks,
Brian
We have a site with multiple multi-family buildings (two story).
Each building's revit file is just the envelope and unit demising walls. The building file contains housing units, linked in and copied.
There are only two housing unit plans in each building and these plans are repeated multiple times within the building. The housing units contain interior walls and interior doors.
The building file has the exterior doors, the interior doors are contained within the referenced linked housing unit files.
I'm not looking to consolidate all of the buildings into a master door schedule (though that's an interesting conversation, but for a different thread).
I'm looking at how to create a door schedule for each building that uses the intelligence built into the model.
As an example, Building C has 12 housing units (six are Type A and six are Type B). We have developed a Type A Revit model and a Type B Revit model and they are linked into Building C.
Unit Type A has 12 doors, numbered 01-12. Unit Type B has 12 doors, numbered 01-12. The doors are matching in use between Type A and B units. i.e. Door 04 is an identical door leading to the bathroom in both units.
Looking at Unit A and B placed in Building C there are then identical doors numbered 01-12 in each unit. I don't like the duplication and realize I could move the Type B door numbers up to 20-32 but that doesn't solve the overall problem.
If I was to schedule the doors as the Units sit in the building model there would be 12 lines showing door number 01 and 12 lines showing door number 02 and on until the end. I don't like that.
I could add a quantity column to the schedule and have only 12 lines in the schedule, one each for doors 01-12 respectively, and the Quantity line would read 12 for each door. (is the quantity an automatically calculated parameter or just text?). That could work if the quantity was auto-calculated. I don't want to rely on "dumb" text in the schedule.
I could make the doors A01-A12 and B01-B12 and combine that with the Quantity parameter and the count would be only 6 per door number.
We've worked really hard at making the buildings work with repetitive units. I do not want to explode or copy the units into the building model just so I can renumber and schedule the doors as 01-144.
I have no illusions we're so special as to be the first to have tackled this problem.
What are the best practices for scheduling these doors which reside in revit models which are linked in and repeatedly copied in our Building model?
Thanks,
Brian