Revit 2022
by: Eric Wing
Revit Project Setup in a Multi-Trade Environment F
or who? For a small 10 person firm? For a 10,000 person firm? For C&S Companies? (The 500+/- person company I work at). It does make a difference. What your firm does also makes a difference. So therefore, I’d like to stick to the topic for this article. I want to discuss basic production. No BIM Execution Plans or LOD. I just want to discuss my checklist and how I start every project regardless of the size.
TEMPLATES
OK, it starts with the templates. I’ll be honest right now and just say that I am lucky to have some pretty talented folks around me. I wish I could say I know everything about anything but I sure don’t. 18
Templates for each trade need to be developed with input from the folks who are doing the design every day. This development doesn’t happen overnight. The way I approach each trades templates is to let the engineers, architects and designers hash out what they feel is most productive for them. Not everyone in the room is a Revit expert (in fact some of the people are proud of the fact they don’t know Revit). I sit in the meetings looking out for the entire company. For example. When an architect starts hating on the Arial font. I say, “Nope choose a different battle. This is what you want a two fire rated wall to look like in plan? Awesome. That’s great, let’s do it. But leave Arial alone”! My company’s drawings look a certain way in terms of
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