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Increasing Autodesk Revit Productivity for BIM Projects

You're reading from   Increasing Autodesk Revit Productivity for BIM Projects A practical guide to using Revit workflows to improve productivity and efficiency in BIM projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566804
Length 492 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fabio Roberti Fabio Roberti
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Enhancing Your Productivity in Revit with Data Management and Templates
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Productivity in Revit FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Project Data Management 4. Chapter 3: Revit Template and Standards 5. Section 2: Setting Up Revit Projects Efficiently and Exploring Core Functionalities
6. Chapter 4: Starting a Revit Project Efficiently 7. Chapter 5: Core Revit Functionalities 8. Section 3: Adding Visualizations and Dashboards to Your Data
9. Chapter 6: Visual Programming with Dynamo 10. Chapter 7: Dashboard Analyses with Power BI 11. Section 4: Collaborating with Consultants and Plugins and Improving Revit Performance
12. Chapter 8: Collaborating with Consultants 13. Chapter 9: Enhancing Productivity with Plugins 14. Chapter 10: Improving Performance 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Revit Phasing

Revit phases are an excellent function for working with existing buildings as they allow us to distinguish elements from different Phases and Phase Statuses, such as Existing, New, Demolished, and so on. It also helps us control their visibility.

In Chapter 3, Revit Templates and Standards, we showed you how to implement Revit Phases for Revit templates. In this section, we will present the best practices for using Revit Phases.

Depending on your project's size, we advise having one Revit file for the Existing Phase and another Revit file for the New Phase. Although we may use just one Revit file with both Phases for a single house project, we can gain productivity by using separated files for each Phase in medium and large projects.

Revit File with Only the Existing Phase

This Revit file will only contain the surveyed model for the existing building, and it will only be used to demolish objects.

We can use the Demolish tool from the Modify tab and...

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