Coordination review is the process by which models are resynchronized to see if there are changes to the linked architectural model. So if the level to level height changes, or levels are renamed, or rooms are deleted, Coordination Review will show you the changes that need to be made. When the file is opened, the user will be prompted of the architectural changes that were made, and show them to you.
To see the coordination issues, select Coordination Review from the Tools menu, and select the appropriate linked file. When the Coordination Review window opens, the issues will be listed, and you can select the appropriate action. You will rename, move, and delete elements in your model to follow suit with the architects linked file. To copy newly added rooms, you must use the tool in Copy/Monitor. You are not notified when new rooms are added, so make it practice to open Copy/Monitor, and click Copy Rooms when a updated model is received.
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ReplyDelete"select the appropriate action" &
"To copy newly added rooms, you must use the tool in Copy/Monitor. You are not notified when new rooms are added"
"so make it practice to open Copy/Monitor, and click Copy Rooms when a updated model is received"
What if you work at an A/E firm?
We get a new change everytime the arch saves to central. Move one partition to the left and I have to delete two rooms and copy monitor them back in. It can look like a whole new building every two days. We can't get any work done if we are constantly syncing with the arch central file, and they won't quit changing/moving things here and there until the day it goes out. Is there a better way to sync rather than having to know every little wall move, or door swing?
Even if the Architecture and Engineering work is done in the same house, I would still recommend linking in the Architectural Model. Some of these Models get to be very large, and combining the Architectural, Structural and MEP models will become combersome.
ReplyDeleteIf you continue linking in the Structural and Architectual projects into your MEP project, you can control how many times you update the backgrounds.
But even if you did create one large Architectual/MEP project as one, many of the MEP objects are host based, which means that if a wall moves, for example, the objects that are hosted on the wall will move with it. Another great tool for coordination.