Krippahl wrote:
...If you have to deal with hundreds of RFIs, this could be a great way of keeping track of them.
The more automated process most benefits high volume requirements but I think it will be a while before we can work out something better than the current ad hoc approach.
On smaller projects the quick snap and email still seems best. It is also the most flexible, accommodating teams using multiple programs on various platforms.
I'm working on a small science lab building with people using CADDUCT, SprinkCAD, Revit, etc and coordinated in NavisWorks. We are sharing RVT, DWG, NWC/NWD and, of course, PDF files. The coordination meetings use Navis to check that we're getting things sorted and generate the to do lists, but the sticky details we sort out with screen shots and emails between the affected parties. Part of the effect is to dramatically reduce the number of RFIs.
On a large hospital project we had a similar assortment of software involved and thousands of RFIs (not to mention hundreds of COs and almost a hundred ASIs). I found the easiest way to keep track of all of these was as PDFs with labels and comments in the Finder. This was obviously not a project wide solution since I was the only one using Macs, (just my own way of keeping it all straight) but it was not uncommon that others would ask me to sort out one thing or another since I could usually look the stuff up quicker than most.
This is not to say that some simple, single, automated process won't emerge but I suspect that it will have to evolve rather than be invented.
