From the course: Revit: Industrialized Construction

Making sure the prefabricated units are located accurately - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit: Industrialized Construction

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Making sure the prefabricated units are located accurately

- [Instructor] In the previous video, in our New Commercial Building_2021.rvt file, we inserted our prefab restroom unit. Now that's another Revit model that we've brought into the main host model on New Commercial Building. And it's just here, you can see it there. Now it's not in the right place at the moment. So what I need to do here is I need to move it. And the benefit I have is I can just click here on Move. Like so and I can move this like any other Revit element in a model. So I'm going to pick my corner there, just move it across and I'll just move it to the corner there like so, and it drops right in like that, absolutely spot on. And you can see it fits nicely inside the existing wall structure in the main host Revit project. Now, the benefit I have here now is that is now positioned accurately. And you can see there that we've got a door there, like so, and that door there works beautifully. If I hover over it and just click on it, I can actually double click on this and what'll happen, nothing, the whole idea of it is, it's linked and I can't do anything with it, that's the benefit. But the benefit I have now is someone else can be working on that prefab unit. That prefab unit can now be edited by somebody else, I don't need to worry about the layout of the urinals, the cubicles, the sinks, I can leave all that to my interior fit out person who is designing those prefabricated units for me. And the benefit I have is I can go to Manage links now and when it does change, I can just select it, I can either reload it from a known location where it already is, the relative path type or I can do a reload from and go and find it elsewhere. It might be on a cloud server somewhere that is being shared for the project. I could potentially be Work sharing this project, It could be part of a Work set in a Workshare project as well. But the benefit you have is ,that it's there and it's a Revit project and it's got all of the Revit elements in it, the sinks, the doors, the windows, whatever else is in there is all Revit related. It's all Revit families, It's all Revit technology and that's the benefit of this, is when you start linking your Revit models for this industrialized construction, you know that that is just a little box now that somebody is designing for you, you don't have to think about that anymore. All you've going to do is make sure it's positioned accurately and neatly in your main host Revit project.

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