We will begin with using the architectural link directly for our purposes. The main issue with the architectural link is the visibility of the walls in the structural views. Specifically, it is typical practice for our local architects to model walls an non-load bearing and hence they are not visible in "structural" views.
You could set your views to coordination and then these walls would be visible, but then the visibility of the structural items is disrupted.
An alternate option to the above is to have your handy IT colleague create a wonderful little add-in that will turn all walls in the architectural model before you link it, into bearing walls. After this, they will be visible in all your views.
Once the walls and structure are both visible in the required views, you can obviously proceed with your work. I, however, do like to have more flexible and direct visibility control over the architectural walls in the model than this setup can provide, so I take it a slightly alternate route.
I use Parts.
As part of standard workflow for wood framed Revit linked project, I turn each wall in the Revit link to a Part. You can select each wall in the link using Ctrl + Select repeatedly and then clicking on Parts in the Create tab on the ribbon.
Parts will now be elements in your structural model but linked to the walls in the architectural model. This method allows you to have complete and direct visibility control over these objects in your project. Additionally, because the parts are linked to the architectural model, with each reloaded link, via parts, the openings and locations of all walls in the architectural model are automatically updated.
No comments :
Post a Comment