Managing Campus-Type Project

[sfraney]

Hi everyone.

We are currently working on a rather large campus project the consists of the several individal buildings. The project is in it's conceptual phase and have have already created the master plan for the entire campus in one revit central file. The campus masterplan consists of 3 phases (not that this important in the post). For speed and simplicity, we initially have placed massing elements inside the masterplan to represent the campus buildings over the 3 phases.

Additionally, a few of our architects have already started modeling one of the phase 1 buildings inside the masterplan central file. They started to model this building in a seperate design option off to the side of the campus site plan and not where the building needs to be realtive to the masterplan.

I want to be able to manage the master plan file as itself and not have any building models being designed inside it. I also want to remove the "phase 1" building that the architects have already started and put it into it's own central file and relink it back into the masterplan central file.

One importnat question I have intially is concerning the phase I building that has already been started. Once I get it into its own central file, proabably by doing a save-as of the masterplan central file and stripping everything out of it except for the phase 1 building data. DO I HAVE TO PHYSICALLY MOVE IT TO THE CORRECT LOCATION RELATIVE TO THE MASTER PLAN? Or can I just link it back to the maasterplan central file and move it into the correct position.

Again, I will have more buildings with their own central file as time passes to link them into the masterplan. Do I need to concern myself with shared coordinates?

[twiceroadsfool]

How expansive is the Master Plan as a whole? If they modeled the building "off to the side" and it is far from the origin, it may cause problems.

If theyre pretty early in to the modeling (IE: they havent finished CD's) i would pick up the entire building and relocate it around the origin after you do the Save As.

In each model you want to stay in reasonable proximity to the Origin...

[sbrown]

You will want to understand shared coordinates. You will find it much easier in the long run to have all the buildings standalone and oriented as you would want them on a sheet, then linked into your master plan, rotated, moved up or down, then share the coordinates.

Also here is a document I put together that maybe helpful when working on multi-building projects. Its not finished so please comment on it if you have suggestions.

[sfraney]

Thank you for this information. Currently, what I have done was is separated the masterplan into its own central file as described earlier. I also now have a single "phase 1" building central file.

I've purged all of the "phase 1" building model and associated concept drawings out of this file.

In regards to shared coordinates, I plan to link in the phase 1 building model into the masterplan central file. Once this file is linked, how do i apply shared parameters to the linked phase 1 building file?