Noob - Apartments

[Peter M. Gruhn]

I'm starting up the learning curve of Revit. Made the simple tutorial house and am headed in to a real project. Three story multifamily L-shape. Relatively modest as these things go but no doubt wall to wall challenge for me.

 

The are more apartments than there are kinds of apartment. AutoCAD we'd make some blocks and plunk them down where they belong.

 

I'm reading the help here for Revit and it says "you can link things in to repeat like this" "which is OK early on" "but a bad idea for your final model." (Their argument does sound sound.)

 

Do people in the field concur? I should not use repeated units throughout my building?

 

Is there a "bind" or "explode" type operation that will let me build up units, lay them out and say "OK, I'm happy with that, now make a proper model"?

[Cesar R]

It is all relative to how many people are working on the project, who is doing what..

typically you dont want to used "LINKS" for things like units. I would maybe use "GROUPS" which a translation of "BLOCKS" from autocad.

[aaronrumple]

typically you dont want to used "LINKS" for things like units. I would maybe use "GROUPS" which a translation of "BLOCKS" from autocad.

 

I use links for the design process (and DD). Links will allow you to keep the file sizes small and manageable. Depending on the project size - the groupswill be later converted to groups. This improves the interoperability between walls for cleanup. However, for very large projects - it may be desireable to leave things as links. The nice thing about Revit is that you can switch between links and groups and back pretty easily.

[Cesar R]

it depened on what you are trying to accomplish. Units can be links to a certain point, but I would convert them to group during DD - specially as you mention due to the wall clean up. For other things such as structure, I would link that and leave that as a link.