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1. Except for very common details, we try to detail in model sections instead of detail views but we do have common details like door details that are in a resource project you can select and load from.   Those details are obviously annotated.
2. We don't use detail component tags but if we did, it would be only one tag.   We use keynote for major items.   We use material tags for wall/roof/floor layers.
3. We maintain the OOTB library intact but we maintain seperate folders in the same library for our families.  This is a BIG issue so we limit write ability to only a couple of librarians.
4. AISC shapes and similar items are driven by a type catyalog.   You have to save both to a new location to work correctly.   If you have broken the type catalog 'link', you will have to redirect it.

Good luck to you ..... too many cooks will spoil the stew so get a handle on access and standards.

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Thank you WWHub,

I found your advice very helpful and will definitely integrate it with my own methods as well as our company standards.  Fortunately for me, I am the only 'cook in the kitchen', so it is just a matter of finding a method that works the best for me.  Of the three other people in our office, only one even knows how to open Revit. He is fairly knowledgeable about the project development end of things.  But customization and family devvelopment are completely up to me.  That being said he seems to like to treat Revit too much like AutoCAD in that we often times have a fairly incomplete model, and will use a ton of drafting views.  Hence, the want to make my detail components as efficient as possible.  I do however detail in model sections as often as possible.  After posting this thread I found the text file that should be linked with the families to make them communicate properly, and am getting ready to open that box of worm right now.  I think sometimes my problem is information overload; I find all of this great advice from so many different people, and find it all becoming a jumbled mess in my head.  Revit is such a vast, powerfule software, and I just want to know how to use it to the best of my ability.  There's a thousand ways to skin a cat, I suppose I just need to find the one that works for me. 

Thanks again.

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