Link Model view?

[scowsert]

I have the main school all modeled up. Our client has a bus shelter designed but doesn't know where it will be located on the site. I've modeled up the bus shelter in a separate rvt file. I'd like to link in the floor plans from the bus shelter into the schools drawing sheet without placing it physically on the model. Can I do this? Link a model view from a rvt file into a sheet without placing it on a level?

How?

Thanks Sage

[Scott Womack]

I'd like to link in the floor plans from the bus shelter into the schools drawing sheet without placing it physically on the model. Can I do this? Link a model view from a rvt file into a sheet without placing it on a level?

I do not believe that linking the file in, without placing it will allow you to use a plan from the file, since your main revit file has no idea where the linked file is located until you place it.

There are a couple of possibilities. Create two phases prior to the default existing phase. Place the shelter on a level, in that first phase. Demo it in the second phase you created. In this way it will never appear in any of your CD views, but you can create a view of it set to that first phase, and place it on a sheet.

Second option is to create a workset that is off by default, link the shelter with that workset active. Create a separate working view, and turn that workset on. The shelter will appear only in the views where you manually turn on the workset.

[scowsert]

Thanks Scott I'm going to go with your workset concept.

[mwiggins121466]

Just be aware that if another discipline links that model they will not be able to see that workset.

[scowsert]

Now that I've done it. I don't see the Section markers in my linked view. Do I need to do them over again?

So basically in linked model do all my modeling and tagging.

In this model (pulling in the linked model) do the section markers?

[cliff collins]

You can control Visibility of the Linked File while in the main model, in any view.

Go to View Properties>Visibility>Revit Links

It will be set to display by Host view by default.

Set it to Custom--Model Categories, Annotation Categories, etc.

Now you can control visibility of the linked Revit file.

cheers.......

[twiceroadsfool]

Youre never going to see Section Markers that are IN a linked file. They reference views on sheets that are not part of the model youre in, so they wont show up. Not sections, elevations, callouts, etc.

[saeborne]

Just be aware that if another discipline links that model they will not be able to see that workset.

It depends how you link it...

Under File / Manage Links / Revit, there is a parameter called Reference Type. "Overlay" will not pass through to consultants. "Attachment" will.

That said, I still often use the Overlay method, and simply send 2 models to my consultants. This is to give them independent visibility control of each link. Otherwise, they might end up seeing two sets of grids, for example.

Bryan