topic Re: Is there any possible to keep design and construction do in Documentation

Is there any possible to keep design and construction doc?

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:20:00 GMT

Does there anyone know how to keep the design and construction work at the same file? I have one house doc already, and on the construction site has some kind of different (room size slightly changed, the building slight shrunk 20mm,etc), I want to keep them at the same file, otherwise I have to save as to another file.

Eric

Re: Is there any possible to keep design and construction do

Thomas Holm — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:54:13 GMT

Layer management & layer combinations. Read the help files.

Re: Is there any possible to keep design and construction do

TomWaltz — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:21:33 GMT

I think my question is why you would want to keep them in the same file? It just makes scheduling and file performance that much more of a pain.

Re: Is there any possible to keep design and construction do

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:21:52 GMT

I was also trying to keep them in the same file. The main reason being that if there are a lot of changes in the construction documents phase than building permit files also need to be updated and resubmitted for approval. If they are in separate files then it is hard to keep track of all changes.
However, this changed with Virtual Trace. It is easy to keep the two files synchronized with Virtual Trace (although attention still needs to be paid) and so nowadays I am for keeping them in separate files.

Re: Is there any possible to keep design and construction do

KeesW — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:11:29 GMT

Nobody has mentioned Revit which does this without fuss.
Maybe AC programmers should look over their shoulders more frequently!

Re: Is there any possible to keep design and construction do

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:49:52 GMT

Yes, I think you are right, it would be good if GS worked out a solution for this Story Height problem, plus that Floor Plan Cut Plane problem (there should be possible to define regions to have different Floor Plan Cut Plane Heights on the same Story), because I think these two are related.