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jchen

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To the people who have been using revit to product complete sets of construction documents, how does your office organize the files and the drawing sheet?  Do you only have 1 central file of the revit model that includes all the plot sheets within it?  Or do you somehow divide it up into separate files? 

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If you are the only Revit dude ruling the roost, just stick with the standard project file.   That's the case in my office.  We have only looked at a central file with consultants of different disciplines.

Some of these other guys have multiple people working on their projects, so they could better tell you about the central file life.

Just remember that once you go to worksets, you can't get your original compact project file back.

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For both stand alone files and central files, all of the sheets for one desciplineare in one file.  That is the magic of REVIT.

If you are in an office with multiple people working in the project, you will want to enable worksets.  Please read your HELP before you start this process so that you understand it.  Even if you are working alone, you may still want to enable worksets so that you can furtur control your project.

If you are in a multi-discipline firm, you may do everyting in one central file but more than likely that will become a problem if your project is any size at all.  So you will probably do the same as we do with outside consultants.  Every discipline will have their own files which they will copy/monitor their consultant files into.  This is another process that takes a lot of knowledge so start with your HELP before you go any furthur here.  If you use this process, it would be wise to get some advanced training along with your consultants.

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So if multiple people work on the project with worksets and they create sheets on their local files, do they all ultimately get saved to the central file?  And the  central file will have ALL the sheets and everybody created?  (just making double sure)

 Also,somebody brought up the views and sheets... so when I create levels, a view is automatically generated, say for Level 1 and Level 2 etc...  So when you want to put First Floor and Secon Floor views in your sheets, do you create a separate view from the automatically generated Level 1?  If so, how do you keep those organized in the Project Browser View window?

 Thanks a lot for all the info!  

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Plans are not automatically created from levels unless you do that.

READ YOUR HELP ON WORKSETS!   You need to thoroughly understand the central / local file system.  But as a quick answer, when you save to central, you publish your work for others to see / use and you load what others have also published at the same time.  .... At unless you don't want your work savedbecause your not sure of what you are doing, you should be saving to central often ... maybe every 15 minutes.  BTW, when you save to central, you can no longer undo.

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