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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

How to create a Revit template

Revit templates provide consistency and improve productivity in projects. They do so by defining graphical and technical settings that align with your organization and industry standards.

The Revit template is not static; it will evolve with improvements for continuous development as we adjust it for new standards and workflows.

As you might already know, Autodesk releases a new Revit version every year. However, updating Revit templates for multiple versions can be time-consuming.

To avoid creating and updating multiple Revit templates in different Revit versions, we suggest that you keep the template in the same Revit versions for a few years; this could vary between 3 and 4 years. We also recommend that you recreate your template from scratch every 5 years.

To explain this process, let's assume that your company has a Revit template in Revit version 2021. This Revit template in the 2021 version will be used for 3 to 4 years and updated...

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