BIM Collaborate part 1 | Combine disciplinary models and create a saved view

In this series of exercises, you’ll use Model Coordination to review, evaluate, and document clashes of 3D model objects. The first step for evaluating 3D models for clashes is to create a combined view of the disciplines you wish to evaluate and this is explored in Part 1.

Autodesk Online Help resources: Model Coordination; Models in the Viewer; About the Views tool

Learning objectives:

• Combine disciplinary models for clash detection workflows.

Exercises

Open a model coordination space

Note: Your teacher should have created your model coordination space and the 1_Office Building model should appear in the models listed with the Models panel. If you are using these exercises and not in an instructor-led class, you will need to create a coordination space. See Online Help for details.

1. Account sign in: Sign in to the Autodesk Construction Cloud.
2. Open a Project: Open the project your teacher has invited you to by clicking the project name (Figure 14a, mark 1).
3. Open Model Coordination: From the product picker menu, click Model Coordination (Figure 14a, mark 2).
4. Choose an active model coordination space:
   1. Click Models in the left navigation menu (Figure 14a, mark 3).
   2. Click the Model Coordination drop-down menu in the Models panel and select 1_Office Building.

 

Open a saved view

A saved view allows you to open a specific set of disciplinary model files repeatedly over the life cycle of the project.

1. Open the Views panel: Click Views on the left navigation panel (Figure 14b, mark 4).
2. Open a saved view: Click the saved view named: MEP vs Struct (Figure 14,b mark 5). Resulting view opens in the viewer (Figure 15).

Navigate model view

Using either your scroll wheel mouse device, view cube (Figure 15, mark 1), or the navigation tools along the bottom of the view panel (Figure 15, mark 2); explore and familiarize yourself with the building objects you have chosen to compare.

 

Answer questions about the Structural and MEP model files

For this exercise you will use Model Properties to provide answers to the questions below. Because you are working with native Autodesk Revit model files, all the metadata associated with the objects is available to you in this environment.

 

Open an existing Saved View

1. Open a model coordination space: If you haven’t already performed these steps, open the 1_Office Building model coordination space from the drop-down menu as described in the Open a model coordination space section.
2. Open a saved view: Open a saved view as described in the Open a saved view section.
3. Access model properties: There are two ways to access properties of a model object.

Method 1: Select an object on screen, right-click, and choose Show Properties.

Method 2: Select an object on screen and then select the Properties tool in the View toolbar at the bottom of the screen.

 

Answer structural object property questions

Identify the Autodesk Revit Type Names of the following objects under the Identity Data group of attributes.

Questions:

• What is the column size (Figure 16, mark 1)?

Column size ___________________

• What is the beam size (Figure 16, mark 2)?

Beam size ___________________

 

Answer MEP object property questions

Questions:

• What is the name of the MEP object highlighted (Figure 17, mark 3)?

MEP object name ___________________

• What is the diameter of the MEP round duct object highlighted (Figure 17, mark 4)?

MEP round duct diameter ___________________

 

Close the model viewer: To return to the Models panel and close the model view, click the X in the top-right corner of the viewer.

 

Select and open disciplinary models to view

Now it is your turn to open and combine multiple model files and save the view.

1. Open a model coordination space: From the Models panel, open the Team #_Office Building model coordination space assigned to you from the drop-down menu.

 

2. Mark the model files to view: Select the checkbox in front of each model file (Figure 18, mark 1).

Example: 1_Office Building; choose Model Coord_Structural and Model Coord_MEP

Example: 2_Medical Laboratory: choose 3D L1 MEP and 3D L1 Structural (not shown).

Note: Only 3D RVT, DWG, IFC, and NWC models are supported for clash detection. See the Online Help  for more information on supported files.

3. Open 3D model files in web browser viewer: Click Open In Viewer (Figure 18, mark 2). Wait for the model files to display in web browser, approximately 10 to 30 seconds. The Viewer displays the selected model files (Figure 22, mark 4).
4. Add and remove models: If you selected the wrong disciplinary model pairing that you wanted to view, use the Select Models button (Figure 18, mark 3) in the bottom-left corner to select a new model file and remove the other model file.

Note: If the model files are not aligned properly, you have the option to use the Transform button in the top-left corner of the interface to reposition and rotate model files. Refer to Online Help for more information on the Transform feature.

5. Navigate model: Orient the model as needed using the view tools (Figure 18, mark 4 and 5).

 

Create a saved view

Creating a saved view allows you to open a specific disciplinary model combination repeatedly over the life cycle of the project. Refer to Online Help for more details on creating saved views.

1. Create a Saved View:
   1. Click Save View (Figure 19, mark 1) in the bottom-left corner of the application screen.
   2. Enter a Title for the view name (Figure 19, mark 2). Use your initials as a prefix to the view name.
      
      Example:
      JH_MEP vs Struct
      
      
   3. Set Privacy mode to Public (Figure 19, mark 3).
   4. Enter a description (optional), (Figure 19, mark 4).
   5. Click Save View (Figure 19, mark 5) to create the view.

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2. Confirm the active Saved View:
   1. Look for the active view name in the top-left corner of the application screen (Figure 20, mark 1).
   2. To change the active saved view, click the drop-down icon and select a different saved view.

 

Filter model objects using Model Browser

Use Model Browser to isolate specific model files or sub-systems using discipline, Autodesk Revit assembly, or Autodesk Revit category filters.

1. Open Model Browser:

Click the Model Browser icon in the navigation toolbar (Figure 21, mark 1).

 

2. Activate model filters:
   1. Assembly: Select the checkbox for Superstructure (Figure 22).
   2. Category: Select the checkbox for Structural Framing (Figure 23).

 

 

Note: Choices available in the drop-down menu for any given filter type is model file dependent.

3. Create a new saved view by updating an existing view:
   1. Click Update View at the bottom of the Model Browser panel.
   2. Give the view a new name.
      
      Example:
      JH_Structural Framing
      
      
   3. Click Save As New to create a new view.

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Note: Saved views can include filter settings when you click Update View at the bottom of the Filter pane. Refer to Online Help for more information.

4. Close the saved view: Click X in the top-right corner of screen to return to the Models panel view.

 

Answer questions about structural objects in the view

Open a saved view: Open the saved view in your team’s model coordination space: (your initials)_Structural Framing created in the previous exercise.

1. If you haven't created a saved view, refer to the previous exercise to create one.

How many unique steel beam sizes are there in this project and how many instances of the W12x26 beam are there (Figure 24)?

Number of unique beam sizes and what are the sizes___________________

Number of W12x26 beams ___________________