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AmyEAmyW

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I am wondering what is the best practice for converting a Revit model from a previous project (has existing conditions, demo & new work) to be a model for a new project in the same building, where all of that new work is now current existing conditions. (We did a renovation project in this building already and now have another project in the same building) I've been playing around with showing only demo - deleting those, then mass selecting everything in new construction and setting their Phase Created as New Construction but am thrown quite a lot of errors and deleted elements.

Am hoping there is a way that I am unaware of that Revit will just sort of accept all the New Construction work as the now current Existing Conditions and eliminate the elements related to the demo work. Any advice or direction is greatly appreciated! Also any tips on cleaning out a model are welcome too.(apologies if this has already been discussed somewhere but every which way I tried to search for the answer just brought me to how to start a new Revit project in general)

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Well you can select any object and give it a phase of construction. If your hybrid existing/proposed/demolition model is now all existing, then why don't you just select all objects and make them existing at the bottom of the propoerties box?You will likely still need to consciously go through and check everything is correct.

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Please can you help me to find complete drawings to download

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suedehart

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Hi AmyEAmyW - did anyone ever answer your question about converting a construction model to existing conditions?  I have a very complex reconstruction project that is now complete and am trying to get all work to be existing (discard the old demo and new work phases). Going through the model and manually changing everything is going to be too time consuming and cost prohibitive.  Am curious to know if there is another solution...thanks! Sue

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suedehart

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I found that by merging the New Construction and Existing phases, I was able to make the entire model existing and start anew.  This resulted in a variety of issues that still needed to be cleaned up, but is a lot simpler/easier than manually changing every object to the existing phase.

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