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kristianniclasen

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Hello guys. We are drawing a building witch is about 11.000 m2. I am in doubt what is smartest to do. Is it smartest to have the building in one Revit model, and the furniture in an other revit model, or is best to have it in the same model?  If I do it in 2 seperate models, how do I do it? If I start a new project and link the building model in, then I can’t snap “wall based” families on the linked model. How do I do? 

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Read your HELP on linked models and copy monitor.

We provide interior service as well as architectural so we place everything in the same model but we use worksets to seperate interior items from the remainder of the work.  If we were only doing interiors and someone else did the architectural, then we would link the model. 

Wall, ceiling, floor or roof hosted elements are problematic with linked models.  You have to own the host element to place these.  In some cases, you can use copy monitor so you own the hosting element.   But many consultants change their families to face based families which can be placed on linked surfaces.

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Thanks for the answer.

I'll read more about it on Help

We are doing both architectural building and interior service. I just thought that the model got to big and heavy to work with if everything is in the same model. I did that last time, and placed all the interior in one workset and the building in one workset, like you. It worked fine. 

That building was 7.200m2 and this is 11.000m2. So I just want to start right

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If you have been creative (not crazy) in your use of worksets, you can manage large projects by using reduced worksets when you open your project.  

We always place all linked files in their own workset so they don't need to be loaded.  Obviously your interiors would be in a different workset that the architects may not need to load.  Exterior and site might be on worksets that you would not need for interiors.  also pay attention to CAD imports and check the "this view only" whenever appropriate.

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Okay thanks. 

I think I'll try that

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