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Mastering Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2013
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Mastering Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2013

by Phil Read, James Vandezande, Eddy Krygiel
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1138 pages
33h 50m
English
Wiley
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Chapter 5

Managing a Project

Understanding Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software and how to use it is not a difficult challenge. The real challenge in understanding Revit and BIM is determining how it changes your organization's culture and your project's workflow. Revit software gives you more than just a different way to draw a line. In this chapter, we'll focus on what those changes are and provide some tools, tips, and tricks on how to manage the changes.

In this chapter, you'll learn to:

  • Understand a BIM workflow
  • Staff a BIM project
  • Work in a large team
  • Perform quality control on your Revit model

Understanding a BIM Workflow

Regardless of the design and production workflow you have established in the past, moving to BIM is going to be a change. In Chapter 1, “Introduction: The Basics of BIM,” we discussed some of those changes and tried to help define your place in the process of managing that change. Regardless of where you fall on the adoption curve, you'll still need some tools to help transition from your current workflow to one using Revit software. To begin, we'll cover some of the core differences between a CAD-based system and a BIM-based one.

Moving to BIM is a shift in how designers and contractors approach the design and documentation process throughout the entire life cycle of the project, from concept to occupancy. In a traditional CAD-based workflow, represented in Figure 5.1, each view is drawn separately with no inherent relationship between drawings. In ...

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