Many Architectural & Engineering firms have spent years if not decades creating and maintaining the office CAD standards. Many firms have adpoted the National CADD Standards and invested time and money into training.
Now here comes Revit. Take all that time and money and throw it into the trash. Just completely forget all of it, Right? During the past 3 1/2 years of using Revit not one person I have met has discussed what to do with managing Revit. Shall I as a CAD manager just turn a blind eye and let our users manage there own naming of their views, families and sheets?
I was ask to assist some of our staff with a Revit project for a day and was shocked at the missuses of the view names. They just made it up as they went.
"partialfloorplanonthenorthsideofbuilding" or some weird name.
If you are the only person working on a project go ahead and name your views any way you want. But when you start working in larger office with many people on a project and that team keeps on changing then you need consistency throughout the office.
Lets start with some examples based on the NCS:
Floor Plan = A-FPxxxxxx
Site Plan = A-SPxxxxxx
Demolition Plan = A-DPxxxxxx
Elevation = A-ELxxxxxx
Section = A-SCxxxxxx
Details = A-DTxxxxxxx
xxxxxx = User Defined
After you start naming your views you need change the way your browser sorts the view names. I suggest sort by view name (first 4 characters).
Give this a try you will find that your staff will enjoy the familiarity of how they did it in CAD.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
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