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Publishing Your Models to ACC

Publishing Your Models to ACC

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Revit — Publish your Revit Model to ACC

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Create a 3D view to filter the elements to be included for VR viewing

  • Duplicate an existing 3D default view (not a perspective camera view)
  • Rename this view easy to remember like “All Models for VR”
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Open this view and use Visibility/Graphics Overrides to filter the elements that you want to include when viewing your model in VR.
  • If you want to see elements from all disciplines, switch to the Revit Links tab and TURN ON the checkboxes for the models to be included.
  • If you want to filter out some of the elements from the view, switch to the Model Categories or Annotation Categories tabs to TURN OFF the checkboxes for categories to be excluded.
    • Levels and Grids
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Create another 3D view to filter the elements to be included for Model Coordination

  • Duplicate an existing 3D default view (not a perspective camera view)
  • Rename this view easy to remember like “Model Coordination” or “Arch Model Only”
  • Create a new view with easy name like “Model Coordination”.
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Open this view and use Visibility/Graphics Overrides to filter the elements that you want to include only your UNIQUE elements that you want to include in the testing.
  • Switch to the Revit Links tab and TURN OFF the checkboxes for:
    • the Linked Models from other disciplines
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      You don’t want the elements in the LINKED MODELS to be present in your view when checking for clashes. They are certain to clash with the original model elements, and this will create a lot of false clashes in your results.

    • the Shared Levels & Grides model
  • TURN OFF any items in your model that aren’t important to include in the model coordination testing. For example, you’ll probably want to turn off:
    • Furniture, Plantings, People
    • Levels
  • TURN OFF any elements that you know will have duplicates in another discipline’s model — for example Floor elements.
    • Discuss with your team, and choose which discipline-specific model should display the Floor elements in model coordination.
    • Then, TURN OFF the floor elements that have been copied into other discipline-specific models — because they would certainly clash.
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Publish these two specials view to ACC

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Adjust Publish Settings to include this view as one to be published on ACC.
  • Open the Collaborate > Manage Models > Publish Settings tool.
  • Create a New Set and give it an easy to remember name like “Model Coordination”.
  • Turn off the pre-defined All Sheet set and Turn on the checkbox for your new Model Coordination set.
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  • In the Edit Set section of the dialog box, choose Show in List: 3D Views in the Model from the pull-down menu.
  • TURN ON the checkboxes for these two new views — All Models for VR and Arch Model Only.
  • Click the Save & Close button to close the dialog.
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Sync Now to upload the latest changes (including the new views and the publish settings) to the cloud.
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Publish the latest version of your model using Publish latest.
  • Open the Revit Home screen.
  • Navigate to your Cloud Revit model.
  • Right-click on your model and choose the Publish latest command from the pull-down menu.
  • This will publish a new version of your project model with the two selected views:
    • All Models for VR — which you will use for viewing the fully integrated model in Resolve.
    • Arch Model Only (or Struct Model Only, or MEP Model only) — a discipline model that contains only the unique elements to be used for clash detection in the Model Coordination tool.
  • Each discipline-specific model should be published without links separately for Model Coordination.
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    • Each discipline can publish their own latest model separately when it is ready for model coordination
    • Or, any team member can publish latest versions of several discipline models by selecting the checkboxes to the left of the models to be included, then clicking the Publish button at the top of the list.
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ACC — Use the Model Coordination Tool

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Copy your latest published model in your team’s Model Coordination folder

  • Go to the ACC web interface
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Copy your latest published version of your model(s) to the Model Coordination folder

Copy the cloud model…

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… to the Model Coordination folder

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Use the ACC Model Coordination tool to identify and classify clashes

  • Using Model Coordination to Find Clashes
  • Classifying Clashes as Issues or Not Issues
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IMPORTANT TIP ABOUT NAMING — USE VERSIONING TO SAVE YOU WORK

  • DO NOT update the name of your Cloud Revit model to reflect new versions.
    • Revit already stores a version of your Cloud Revit model each time you Synchronize. And you can restore a prior version as needed.
    • If you want to save a date-stamped version for easy access, Publish the latest version in Revit, then Copy the file and rename it to include the date or version in the ACC web interface.
  • How does this save you work?
    • When you copy your latest Published model to the Model Coordination folder:
      • If the model has the same name as a previous copy
        • The Model Coordination tool will consider it to be a new version of a previously checked model, so any previously found and classified issues will be honored in the new analysis. You won’t need to classify them again.
      • If the model has a different name from a previous copy
        • The Model Coordination tool will consider it to be a new model, so all of the clashes will be displayed again. Previously found and classified issues will not be carried forward into the new analysis. So, you’ll need to classify them again.