Ok I have been searching the Revit forum for about 6 hours straight to try to find some insight to this problem. I am working on a new school campus that has 5 buildings.
One option that I have found is to do everything in one file and set up worksets and scope box's. That would work great if I had rectangular buildings and there was not a chance of a building having to be moved, but as it is I have irregular shape buildings and when I draw scope box's around the buildings a couple of the scope box's overlap, and of course as this industry is prone to making changes in the middle of CD's theres a good chance of having to move a building, which I read that theres not really a good solution for that. (moving the topo doesn't make sense if I only want to move one building and keep the others in place)
The other option I found was to have each building be a project of its own and then link them into a master project for the site plan and schedules, that way I could manipulate the positions of the buildings without a problem. Heres the catch, I would have to have 5 sets of detail sheets (one for each building) because details cannot be linked. So I thought well I only really need to make one set of details sheets for printing reasons which I could set up in the master project file or one of the building project files and then in the other building project files I could set up dummy detail sheets and for each detail that I need to reference I could create a dummy drafting view put some text in the drafting view and then place it on the dummy sheet change the detail number to match the master set of details, then I could goto the sheet where I need to reference and then reference it like I normally would. But hey thats alot of work. Can you imagine the the additional work required if you needed to manipulate the detail sheets. You would have to do it 5 times. 5 times the work.
For as smart as Revit is this seems to be retarded, or I am. I see Revit 9 is about to hit the shelves and I can only hope that this has been addressed. Can anyone help me out on this. I am hoping I just didn't look in the right spot or didn't search for the right keywords.