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SmileyWhiplash

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If the model elements suffer rebirth, renewal and other REs could ref planes take their place and how should RPs be implemented?

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I don't believe you need many reference planes at all.  Most reference planes that I use are only temporary.  Many objects in Revit can be replaced with similar objects without loss of dimensions if you dimension correctly.

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SmileyWhiplash

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So if I was to replace say a rectangle of walls all dimensioned of a grid and replaced those walls A with another set of walls B by changing the family that is fine.

However we are to experience the hiding of walls A with worksets/filters and then another set of walls B will appear via a link. Likely this link will be dead revit model that will be churned with another dead link structural model periodically.  I do not know why this is happening, however I guess the lives of the many revit users are outweighing the few.

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You wrote ",,,Likely this link will be dead revit model that will be churned with another dead link structural model periodically. " << Not sure what you mean here.  This is like Prego ...It's in there!  There are no ghosts in Revit.  If you see it then its in there, linked or otherwise.

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