Best Practice to Update Spaces in Revit MEP

[Dr._House]

Hi All.

What I have been doing is deleting them all out of the model, thru a space schedule. Then re-adding them back in and going from there. Is that the "best practice" for updating spaces in a Revit MEP project with a linked in Arch model, or is there a faster way that I am just missing?

[BenSammis]

If you have to delete them all and recreate them whenever you get an update from an architect, stop creating spaces so early on in the process. Or get additional fees from the architect for making wholesale design changes that late in the game. Unless they're making extremely drastic changes, you shouldn't have to update more than a few spaces with each new iteration of the architect's model.

[moliva]

The existing spaces should find the new boundaries and repopulate the new rooms in the model update that the arch creates so you don't have to go deleting and remaking. You can run the space naming utility and get the space names correct and then use the space schedule to remove any redundant spaces or duplicates. If some rooms are missing just add them. Depends on how drastic the changes are to see which would work best...obviously if they've completely changed the model then starting fresh may be easier.

[mhartmann]

if the arch has moved the room to where your space's origin point (the center of the cross x) is out of the new outline (your space will be a floating box), you can drag that point to within the room's new boundary and it will fix it without re-creating