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Friday, February 25, 2011

Revit Tip - Managing Phases with Revit Links

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I received an email the other day asking if I could do a few videos on Phasing. This is the snort of topic I have tried to stay away from because I was not sure how best to attack it, but shortly after I read the email I found myself dealing with phases in the office.

The project we were working on is in the very early stages and required some simulation of the actual project construction phases. Therefore, instead of the simple Existing, New, and Demo phases I needed to create 5 new phases. Of course, we had a few different site models linked in that will coincide with certain stages. Well, how do you manage when these site models show and in what stage? As with most Revit solutions... "There is a menu for that" (ha, kind of like "there is an app for that").

Select your Revit Link. Click Edit Type in the Properties bar.


There is a button in the Edit Type window called "Phase Mapping"... Tah dah!  The rest is pretty self explanitory...  Just coordinate which Phase in the Link you want to coincide with which phase in the Main Model.

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Jeff · 738 weeks ago

Excellent tip, not to many users are aware of this. However I do find that it has limitations. For example you can not map multiple phases from a linked model to a single phase within your model. This feature would be very useful considering not all disciplines require the same number of phases for a given project. For example, the arch model may contain an existing phase along with 10 phases for the various demo and new construction stages, but the structural model may only require an existing, and new construction phase. Without access to mapping to single phases the end user must constantly manually override the linked view phase setting and cycle through each phase to determine whats being demolished.
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TheRevitKid 72p · 738 weeks ago

That is a great point. I have not explored this functionality across the discilpines yet but I am wondering if there is a shared parameter or something that exists to do so? I guess we hace to be happy that there is, at least, this amount of managability..? Or, it is just another thing to add to the with list!
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SOSREVIT · 738 weeks ago

EXCELLENT TIP... That's a tip that would save my pratices with phases.
Thx :)
You are great.
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Joe A Perkins · 636 weeks ago

So I have a question about this. I have scoured the net and cannot find any information about exporting or importing a set of phases that I setup in one file so I could use them in another. With 26 phase definitions it is a real pain to rebuild them.

What I have done is use the phases to define the construction zones for a large hospital. It allowed me to write out Navisworks files that I can manage by zone for workflow study. I would love to be able to build all the zones in an external file and import them.
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Duncan · 576 weeks ago

Joe, look into Transfer Project Standard for Phase Setting.
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patty · 544 weeks ago

thank you, thank you, thank you! exactly what I needed to know!
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Filip · 438 weeks ago

great... but.. er.. what about BIND?! I would like to BIND the link with all the phases remain mapped, but the above procedure has no effect... This makes no sense. It is just one of many Revit's unfinished code lines. Wonder when will the Revit beta phase be finished. And they charge for this...

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