Just stated a new project - renovating a commercial building.

Obviously everthing I start drawing should be in Phase 1 - Existing , right ? Then stuff to be demolished gets put in Phase 2 - Demolition and new stuff goes in phase 3 - New Construction. Makes sense to me anyway
Trouble is that Revit thinks everthing I start drawing is new construction and automatically assigns it to phase 3. So I've go to go back, select everthing I drew and change it to Phase 1

So, my question is ... is there a way to pre-assign elements to a particular stage ? ( I have looked .... )
Then again, am I going about this the right way ?

beegee