How do you guys do your Sketch Sheets?

[..shaner]

hi guys, just wondering how i should go about doing a sketch sheet? when we do changes for example moving a door on the floor plan, we would issued an 8 1/2 x 11" "sketch" sheet with a partial foor plan the the area of the change. we do this alow during construction on the fly and we can fax it out to the field rather than reissuing the entire sheet every time. so what would be the best way to do this? i want to just take a portion of my plan, elevation or section and put it onto an 8.5X11 sheet, but i dont want to crop out the plan because that will effect the main sheet

what is everyone else doing in this situation?

thanks for any help

[Steve Jager]

We make a copy of the floor plan and use callouts because then we just turn them off in our sheet.

[dpollard909366]

I would duplicate the floor plan "with detailing" - this will bring most of your annotaions with you. Name the view with SK- in front of it to keep it organized.

[Justin Marchiel]

I have asked this before but how do people track ccn's? what if the ccn is not accepted? how do you go back to your original model (if there are extensive changes)?

Thanks

Justin

[dpollard909366]

I think it depends on the size of the change. If it something major, archiving the revit model by detaching from central may be the best bet. If it is small changes like door, wall, location type of things, Design Options work great! Then you can issue it and accept the current design option if it is passed, or revert to the last design option if it is rejected.

[BillyGrey]

I have asked this before but how do people track ccn's? what if the ccn is not accepted? how do you go back to your original model (if there are extensive changes)?

Save As, keep the original safe and unchanged, move it out of harms way...

[dpollard909366]

make sure that you save as and "detach it from central" if you are using worksets....

[mccurdyks]

I agree that the scale and number of changes will affect how you go about it, but for small changes like moving a door, I think design options is a pain. I just make the change, zoom in on what I want to show, print to 8.5x11 PDF file and use the print settings to maintain scale, etc. Then Ctrl Z until I'm back to where I started. Just shoot the PDF off. If the change is accepted, them make the change permanent. If not, I don't have another design option to deal with.

[Justin Marchiel]

what gets me is that there could be other changes or site instructions going on while the ccn is out. if more working is done and accpeted before the original ccn is rejected, there is a bunch of work backs to get you where you first started.

I like the idea of design options, but i would like to keep a record of the change associated with the project (if it is not accepted).

Any other thoughts.

Justin

[bowlingbrad]

We've been experimenting with phases. Place a CA phase after new construction. Something changes, demo and add new in the CA phase. This also maintains an "as-buit" condition as well as views/elevations won't show up in the CD set.

[ford347]

I like the phasing idea. I really latched onto the phasing idea when I first started with Revit, only because it allows you to go about the building like we would do it in the field. I think bowlingbrad is right with phasing, it's easy to control, it's visibility is controllable and you have records the whole way through. I'll have to give that a shot too!