david.fannon
2007-03-05, 11:12 AM
On a project with multiple instances of the same building design on the site, I would like a way to uniquely identify a grid location for a specific building.
I am working on a large site with a number of buildings. Each of the building files is linked into a master site file (hooray shared coordinates and saved locations!) and some of the buildings will be identical designs (apartments and villas) that are placed on the site several times in different locations/orientations. No problems so far.
In the site file I need to be able to identify individual column-grid locations by name. For example, I have 3 identical apartments, each with a numbered grid 1-16 and lettered 1-F. When these three buildings are on the site, I need a way to identify column D9 in Apartment 3 as different from column D9 in Apartment 2.
In the past we've done this by adding a "series" identifier to one of the grids, so the grid at Apartment 1 reads "ZA, ZB...ZF" and grid at Apartment 2 reads "YA, YB...YF." And then we just add a note that the "Z" series corresponds to a specific location. Of course I don't need to add the series to the numbers, because the series+letter+number is enough to give me a specific location.
Any thoughts on a good, Revit-ish approach? Is there some way to associate a designator with a shared location? If not, useful wishlist item? Or maybe there is another way I should think about this to avoid the problem? The critical objective is to have a system to uniquely identify every single column location on site, but without having a separate Revit file for every instance of the buildings.
I am working on a large site with a number of buildings. Each of the building files is linked into a master site file (hooray shared coordinates and saved locations!) and some of the buildings will be identical designs (apartments and villas) that are placed on the site several times in different locations/orientations. No problems so far.
In the site file I need to be able to identify individual column-grid locations by name. For example, I have 3 identical apartments, each with a numbered grid 1-16 and lettered 1-F. When these three buildings are on the site, I need a way to identify column D9 in Apartment 3 as different from column D9 in Apartment 2.
In the past we've done this by adding a "series" identifier to one of the grids, so the grid at Apartment 1 reads "ZA, ZB...ZF" and grid at Apartment 2 reads "YA, YB...YF." And then we just add a note that the "Z" series corresponds to a specific location. Of course I don't need to add the series to the numbers, because the series+letter+number is enough to give me a specific location.
Any thoughts on a good, Revit-ish approach? Is there some way to associate a designator with a shared location? If not, useful wishlist item? Or maybe there is another way I should think about this to avoid the problem? The critical objective is to have a system to uniquely identify every single column location on site, but without having a separate Revit file for every instance of the buildings.