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Revit 2017 – Structure
by: Philip Russo
Wall Management and Coordination ➲I
Set the ground rules
n a perfectly executed project, all disciplines meet early on and define who owns what portion of the BIM model. We all know that seldom happens and more often than not there are deadlines and budget constraints that dramatically affect the project workflow. The key for any discipline is to develop workflows and procedures that help when collaborating with other disciplines. In this article we will take a look at using filters and the Copy/Monitor tool to help manage walls inside your Autodesk® Revit® Structure model.
Understanding some visibility basics Walls have a property that determines their structural usage. The combination of the structural usage and the discipline of the view determines whether or not a wall is even displayed. For example, when you link in a Revit Architectural model from a consultant only to find out none of the walls are visible in your plan view. The reason, most likely, is that the architectural firm did not bother
Figure 2: View discipline
to assign any structural usage for the walls, and the discipline of your view is set to Structural. You can confirm this by setting the discipline of your view to Coordination to have your walls magically appear.
Parts versus Copy/Monitor The structural engineer couldn’t care less about the finishes on a wall and is only concerned with the core or structural component of a wall. With that said, there are a couple options that people explore to solve this problem. You could request the architect to convert the walls into parts and set up a view that has the visibility of the finishes turned off and only the structural core left on. Figure 1: Structural usage of wall property 6
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April 2017