Revit Standards & Best Practices

by James Vandezande

1. Getting Started

1.1. Ground floor

1.2. Creating a new project

1.3. Dividing/Managing Project Size (Links)

2. Project Standards

2.1. File naming/location

2.1.1. View naming?

2.1.2. Additional BIM folder

2.2. Workset organization

2.2.1. Revit Links

2.2.2. Group logical parts of building

2.2.3. Related to team organization

2.2.4. Needs for exporting or visualization

2.2.5. Naming standards between RVT files

2.2.6. Putting stuff on the right workset

2.3. Browser organization

2.3.1. Views

2.3.2. Sheets

2.3.3. Schedules

2.4. Phasing

2.4.1. How are you documenting the phases?

2.5. Area Settings

2.5.1. Defining area calc types

2.6. Line Styles

2.6.1. DTL-#

2.7. View Templates

2.8. Shared Parameters File

3. Component Standards

3.1. File naming

3.2. Type naming

3.2.1. Sizes

3.2.2. Walls

3.3. Material naming and assignment

3.4. Parameters

3.5. Subcategories

3.6. Uniformat Codes

3.7. Labels

3.8. Text

3.9. Standard Location

4. Collaboration

4.1. Sharing RVT models

4.2. Copy/Monitor

4.3. Disclaimers

5. Best practices

5.1. Wall finishes

6. Project Closeout

6.1. Milestone Review

6.2. Content Extraction

6.3. Template Development

6.4. Archiving