REVIT - WORKSETS - for collaborative models

[inggelu]

Hi,
Please share the worksets you use in Revit for the Worksets - name and little description of what you used.
I'm currently use the next ones:

STR_01_Columns - for structural columns
STR_01_Walls - for structural walls
STR_01_Beams - for structural beams (structural framing family)
STR_01_Slabs - for structural floors
STR_01_Rebar - for reinforcement
STR_01_Revit ARH - for link the architecture revit
STR_01_Revit MEP - for MEP revit
STR_01_CAD - for cad files
STR_01_IFC - for ifc files
STR_01_Stairs - for stairs
STR_01_Foundations - for foundations elements

Thank you in advance for your answers.

 

[sticksandtriangles]

Why are you making worksets for all of these items?

The visibility and control of these items are already pretty explicitly controlled in revit.

Str_01_Columns Workset -> why not just control visibility through structural columns?
Str_01_Walls -> why not just control visibility with walls and the structural tag?

My office also has a CAD standard for making a ton of worksets and I am of the opinion that we are just making more work for ourselves when our clients do not seem to care what worksets we have.

S&T -

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[driftLimiter]

Agreed with S&T. Worksets should only be added if truly needed for a workshared model. I strive to use only the minimal needed for a given project. It does depend on your workflow, from modeling down to detailing. But I have found overly complicated workflows don't help anyone. Could also depend on what LOD your drafting too, how many collaborators on a given file? etc. etc.

 

[Agent666]

We also break it down into materials, some views you might want only steel, concrete or timber filtered for example. Worksets are the most logical way for us to do this

We also sometimes break them down into distinct parts of a structure. Foundations or plant platforms being a couple of typical examples.

I disagree revit has enough baked in functionality, but it really does depend on what you're using the Worksets for (or what other disciplines are using them for).

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[wth]

I mainly set up my models with 3 worksets;
-Shared levels and grids
-Structures
-Links, for other disciplines. This allows you to close this workset as the models become heavy.
Sometimes I'll place topography on it's own workset for the same reason.

 

[Celt83]

Worksets by CSI division. I think Revit 18 or 19 started allowing Worksets to be used in the filter properties, which makes things like highlighting shearwalls, halftone of transfer elements, etc. much simpler.