file linking issues

[chris.macko125036]

Here's the issue I'm having right now. I have a site with 4 buildings on, all relatively small, but all at slightly different orientations. I have 2 of them modeled in seperate files with the true north and shared origin in each setup so they export out to the cad site plan perfectly. landscape and civil are being done by outside consultants so I wasn't planning on doing the site in revit, but I would still like to be able to link my seperate models into one site plan as a master file. The problem is when I try to align my buildings to the site it wants to change the shared coordinates in the building files, which would mess up how they export to cad.
The other question is is there any way to import the sheets of the linked models, or at least have a drawing list reference them so I don't have to deal with multiple drawing lists or creating dummy sheets in the master file that won't automatically update changes?

I know there are some people that are doing large campus projects this way, how have you been dealing with this?

[chris.macko125036]

Ok, I think I figured out most of what I had to do. I had to create additional shared coordinate systems fr each linked file.
I am still curious how those of you with multi-building projects have been printing though. Do you just treat each building as a seperate set?

[Calvn_Swing]

We reference in our links and do all our documentation in the "master" file. Basically, all the 3D Model stuff is done in the "building" file and all the 2D drafting is done in the "Master" file. Right now due to limitations in Revit 9.1 there are a lot of inconsistencies. However, RA2008 should solve a lot of these once it drops...

So, for instance, all our geometry-referencing tags have to be in the model file. Wall tags, material tags, window and door tags, Room tags, etc...

We then create "documentation" views in the model files that are formatted exactly as we want them to appear in the "Master" file. We have a 1st floor standard plan, code plan, FFE plan, etc... for each building.

Then, in the "Master" file we use the VG settings to control the visibility of the links for each view we want on a sheet. You can select "reference linked view" and have that apply all the VP and VG settings from the view in the model file to the link in the master file. There's a little overhead involved with all this, but it saves oodles of time by keeping the individual files clean, organized, and set up for modeling.

In RA2008 you have a crop box for annotations - which solves one of the main problems with our strategy above.
Also, I think you can tag linked objects as well - there go the inconsistencies!

So, it only looks brighter in terms of linking files.

Good luck!

[chris.macko125036]

Thanks, that definitely gives me a good idea of how I need to start setting this up. The different building rotations are still giving me some headaches though. Is there a way to set up multiple project norths so I can get each building to "square up" to its sheet and still appear correct on the site plan? The shared coordinates info box lists the rotation angle, but it is not an editable number.

[DanielleAnderson]

If I understand you right, you are wanting a building which is oriented at a non 0 or 90 degree angle to appear that way on a sheet? If you click "crop region visible" for any given view, then select that crop region, you can rotate the view without changing your true north orientation of the model - it is a view-specific change. Hopefully that is what you were looking for.