H wrote:
Thanks for the help. This will be a very complex project ($50M museum) and with all that is at stake I'm very concern about the transition. The transitions need to be as error free as is reasonable and thus far I don't have the confidence that will be the case.
Would appreciate any other feedback.
consider breaking the model down into smaller files by speciality - so structural steelwork, concrete, HVAC etc . . .
they will be very easy to put together and see as a whole project using hotlinks in archicad, but their smaller size and individuality will aid in many ways...
- firstly a 'package' of information gets locked out: you start to give ownership to each part of the building. i.e. you have to be intentionally working on it to be able make changes - things can't get moved by accident.
- small changes can be updated easily without transferring huge files
- the smaller size of the information contained will put less pressure on the IFC file's complexity.
consider each archicad<>IFC<>revit model files in a similar manner to the old DWG x-refs: a final DWG paperspace drawing will often consist of many combined x-ref files. same thing with your model . . .
HTH
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