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Safety in Design Manuals: The Missing Piece in Project Handover

OmTrak

While it may be tempting to assume that sharing Safety in Design reports and risk assessments with the client’s project manager fulfils these requirements, the next Clause 5 of the WHS Act introduces another crucial obligation. However, this report was merely handed over to the client’s project manager and filed away.

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Revit OpEd: View Discipline

Revit OpEd

When MEP (Systems as it was called then) appeared a year later they extended the concept to Mechanical and Electrical (plumbing lumped in with Mechanical till release 2013). When Mechanical is assigned Revit changes the nature of what plan and reflected plan mean. The concept of View Discipline appeared with Revit Structure.

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Revit OpEd: Layer Function Setting

Revit OpEd

System families have a Function setting. Thats true for Walls, Floor, Roofs and Ceilings. If changed I suspect people would have less trouble deciding which function is appropriate. It cannot be that difficult of change to make for Autodesk either. What you are suggesting is a much bigger change. ► 2011.

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Revit OpEd: Column Shading Gets Obstinate

Revit OpEd

Working with a client the last couple evenings I found a quirky condition with a column family that has a nested detail component to manage masking the way they like. Then I tried changing the column to use the Column Style settings: Slanted - Angle Driven and Slanted - End Point Driven. Changing a Username. ► 2011.

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Revit OpEd: Reference Planes and Wall Closure

Revit OpEd

These adjustments change the 3D model, not just the 2D plan-view. Note the two “wall closure” parameters (shown below) need to be “locked” so they stay positive (in the correct direction) when the host wall thickness changes. Comments: Comments are moderated to manage spamming. ► 2011.

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Revit OpEd: Revit 2013 - View Types

Revit OpEd

Further, views can be tied to view templates and have changes to a view template take effect immediately in a view or many views. We can apply a view template like before, just to make a change or we can assign a view template to the view so that it will alter the view without the past extra step of applying the view template.

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Revit OpEd: Apply View Template to all Views

Revit OpEd

With Revit 2013 my view templates will adjust all those details as soon as I change the template, or at least they can if I set it up that way. Comments: Comments are moderated to manage spamming. of Echo - Don't use the Basic Ceiling. ► 2011. ► December 2011. (19). ► November 2011. (21).