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by: John Stebbins
Better BIM Collaboration
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ant to get the most collaboration out of your BIM Team? These recommendations, based on many years in the BIM trenches, will help your BIM coordination efforts run more smoothly.
GETTING THE MODELS THE WAY YOU NEED THEM
Have each discipline that uses Revit create a specific 3D view called “3D BIM Coordination” using the “Duplicate View” command. Hide all elements that have no relevance to 3D model coordination (movable furniture layouts, grid lines, and so on). This will assist in keeping the file sizes as small as possible and make the models less confusing. Make sure all section boxes in the “3D BIM Coordination” view are hidden. This view, once set up properly, 20 AUGIWorld Magazine | August 2022
will contain the correct visibility settings you wish to export and will be always set up for future model version updates. If a discipline does not have the appropriate 3D object that represents a specific component of their model, have them use a 3D “placeholder” shape in the form of a cylinder, sphere, cube, or rectangular object to indicate your element, making sure it is the same general shape and physical size as the actual object. This placeholder can be replaced later by the specific component or element.
WHAT’S IN A NAME: ESTABLISHING ELEMENT NAMING GUIDELINES
Each discipline should be requested to name model elements and components based on a augi.com
