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| Overview |
| When working with a Revit model as an architectural background, good communication with the architect is vital. Below is a list of items that the architect can do in their Revit model that will help make the engineering process run better: |
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- Architect's should send to the engineer as a background the Central File of their model (instead of a Local File) to ensure all data is current.
- Before sending the architectural model, the architect should use "Purge Unused" to remove any unused items in the model. This will also help with file transfer by reducing the file size (sometimes substantially).
- When working on the architectural model, it is best to modify elements that are already in place (changing their type, height, etc.) than to delete elements and create new ones. This is because those elements may be monitored by consultants and deleting elements breaks that monitoring link.
- Revit MEP denotes walls as interior vs. exterior not by reading the "Wall Function" property in the Wall Type, but by examining the wall for Room adjacencies. If a Wall has Rooms on either side of it, then it is an interior wall - if there are only Rooms on one side, then it is considered an exterior Wall. This means that architects should do their best to place Rooms within every open area inside their model, including within "dead spaces" (unfinished, inaccessible areas left over). These "dead spaces" can be labeled as such and Room Schedules in the architect's model can simply filter them out.
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