Session 3.3
Doing it with Groups isn’t as dirty as it seems
Synopsis:
The question of Model Groups vs Revit Links come up for a lot of repetitious types of Design and Construction Work: Multi Family, Healthcare Patient Rooms, Hospitality Hotel Rooms, Façade elements, multiple buildings, etc. In addition, Groups get a startlingly bad reputation, because of “mis-perceptions” about: “Rotating Groups is bad,” “Mirroring Groups is bad,” “Having a lot of Groups makes things slow,” “Groups are bad for performance.” Much of it simply isn’t true. In this class we will go through making Groups sing, and (more important) how NOT to make them scream.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the key techniques and components to avoid, when composing Model Groups in Revit, to keep them stable.
2. Learn the obstacles you CANT avoid, working with Model Groups, and how to work around them.
3. Understand the pros and cons of the Link vs Group debate, and why Groups win out (most of the time).
Body:
This class will dive in to the simple, and complex, for working with model groups (including groups within groups, element types that can go in groups, group data, Dynamo and groups, data and groups, rotating groups, mirroring groups, tracking groups, LIBRARIES of Groups, Nested Detail Groups in Groups, and Groups and content browsers)
We will look at 25+ level Apartment Buildings, Hospitals, Library Group Files, and some troubleshooting sample files that helped identify the craziness that is working with Model Groups, in Revit.