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6/29/2011 3:12:49 PM
 
Chad
36 Posts
Joined 02/15/2011
Entry Type:
Best Practice
Category:
Import/Export/Linking
Subcategory:
Excel
Project Management - Linking files  

We just got back the model from the MEP for our pilot project and before I start linking in I want to make sure that I've got things setup efficiently so I dont' break anything later on.

Our standard workflow for incoming drawings (CAD) is to save them to an incoming folder and then XREF in to our CAD files:

networkdrive:\incoming\(discipline)\(date)\file name

using this structure I have to re-link everytime a new file comes in to the newest dated file.

is this the best way to go about it with Revit or should we have a central linked file and just save over it when a new file comes in?

networkdrive:\incoming\(discipline)\revit master\file name (saved from the latest file)

 

danke!

 
6/29/2011 5:05:37 PM
 
R. Robert Bell
17 Posts
Joined 04/20/2010
Re: Project Management - Linking files
In Response To:  Chad

The incoming structure doesn't make sense for the live Revit files. Here is the reason:

Most projects should be using central files. The moment you download a model from your clients/consultants and place it in an incoming\<date> folder, it is really a local file looking for the central file from the original location.

Therefore, you must open the downloaded file Detached from Central (DFC), and save it to the real location. "Real" is whereever you want it, but as you have seen, linking into variable folders or using variable file names makes no sense whatsoever in Revit linked projects.

Especially when you consider that you must open all outside central files DFC. So why not just save them as central files in the same folder as your own models and give them your own filename standard? Of course that filename standard should not include a date or other variable.

Another consideration is that renaming linked models will break copy/monitor operations.

So our firm has adopted a flat folder for the live models and we use our own filename standard even on the client/consultant models. We still have an Updates folder where we store historical models, but those are the direct downloads that need to be opened DFC and saved to the flat project folder as the real central files.

I hope that helps.

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R. Robert Bell


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