Thanks very much,
A great improvement to the program (we have 11.5 at the moment and will upgrade to 12.5).
I assume that 2 or more people cannot work on the same file, so I am thinking of the following file structure:
For the Complex:
- Gridline and Site Boundaries File
- Site Plan File and Setout Plan File (which references Gridline and Site Boundaries and dwgs below)
Then for every Block in the Complex:
- Ground Floor Plan File (which references Gridline and Site Boundaries)
- Ground Floor Internals (which references Ground Floor Plan)
- Ground Floor Ceiling Plan File (which references Ground Floor Plan)
- Then for every Set of Repetetive Floors in the Block:
--- Floor Plan Architectural (walls + major openings - references Gridline File)
--- Floor Plan Internals (which references Floor Plan Architectural)
--- Ceiling Plan (which references Floor Plan Architectural and Internals)
- Roof Plan (which references Gridline File)
- Elevations (which references all of the above)
- Sections (which references all of the above)
- Details (which references Sections)
Then a Master Drawing which contains:
- All sheets in the Drawing Set which references all the above drawings
Is this method similar to what you're using for your large projects? In the end, I may end up with 60 or more individual files and 1 Master Drawing, but this allows flexibilty for people to work on different areas of the Complex (for example, the Interior Designer can work on some rooms of Level 3 of Block C without affecting the workflow of the Architect working on the services ducts of the same floor). I am very interested to hear your thoughts.
I am also assuming the live sectioning and elevations works well with referenced drawings. I'm interested if repetetive layering is possible as well (ie if the same referenced drawing can represent multiple floors), if not I may need to organise it so that each floor is represented by a set of drawing files.
I appreciate all your comments, and am interested to hear your views,
Patrick