A little O.T. - Professional practices

[Eric Stewart]

This job is the first that I've had in which I do fit-ups. And this is the first time since Sept. 2002 that this particular situation has come up.

I got a hard copy of a shell building drawing. My job is to draw it in Revit. The fit-up is on the second floor.

Would you model it as such, or would you just "fake it." My gut says to model as the second floor.

[luigi]

If my point of view counts, I would as your gut suggests. You never know if the scope of the project increases and you might need to do the first floor, etc. It happened to me on a job a while back, so I was happy I listened to my gut... :D

[Martin P]

We are working on a fit out at the moment of an existing building (old, solid walls all different thicknesses etc) - We found it very very successful to do the walls as in place wall families. This way all the different thicknesses etc were really easy - not a lot of different wall families and voids etc.... And the whole existing building is one object which is not being altered. May be worth a try in you case?.....We will be doing this again.

I would fake it.... we have drawings that are floor plan alts only. We dont worry about the levels etc. Stairs are detail lines and so on..... speed of producing the drawing we need is our main concern. where would you draw the line with drawing up things you dont need?

[Roger Evans]

If I understand the question correctly I would put each floor plan at its appropriate level

My guess at some point you will need to demonstrate the stair / lifts etc for escape purposes & this will be more complicated if you draw a plan on the wrong level

Like Martin says draw what you need

[cosmickingpin]

Well it isn't like you are talking about a lot more work are we? In the long run, when the project is all said and done, you may hve added 15 minutes (ten of which were involved in writing this post) to the total project budget. I have done it that way in a 26 story building with dozens of tenents, and it is something I can then offer down the road as bait for more work later on to the building owner. Later on some expand to multiple floor occupancies, and I am adding stairs and cutting holes in floors here and there for conduit. if you do work later on in that building you now have a base fill already to go. in my opinion, one should always plan for the future, because as far as planning goes, the future is pretty much all there is to plan for.


This job is the first that I've had in which I do fit-ups. And this is the first time since Sept. 2002 that this particular situation has come up.
I got a hard copy of a shell building drawing. My job is to draw it in Revit. The fit-up is on the second floor.
Would you model it as such, or would you just "fake it." My gut says to model as the second floor.