STOP LOSING BILLABLE HOURS TO
MESSY REVIT WORKFLOWS.
Implement our standardized, high-performing Revit systems so your team can deliver projects in fewer staff hours
YOUR PATH TO EFFICIENCY
1. Audit Your Current Set Up
We Identify where setup and broken standards waste billable hours.
2. Standardize Your Toolkit
Deploy our proven Revit templates, families, and management systems.
3. Focus on your Craft
Reclaim project hours, speed up delivery, and boost firm profits.
WHAT MAKES OUR SYSTEM SPECIAL…
Firms of all sizes across the country struggle to dedicate the time, talent, and resources needed to get ahead of their Revit setup effectively. This is extremely difficult amid the demands of meeting active project deadlines while managing everything else that goes on inside a practice.
ASG has been building our Documentation systems for the better part of a decade now. They are purpose built to help with practice and project management at the hands of a principal architect with over 7 years of experience running a practice.
Systems should be intuitive to use and easy to figure out so that staff don’t need as much direction in how to use them to begin with. It should be clear to staff where to find office standards and best practices because they are already built into the tools.
Project Starting Point
A good project starting point is well established and organized with a lot of setup already completed for projects ahead of time.
Set up for Efficiency
Scope boxes are pre-established and applied to appropriate views, levels & grids where possible
All elements in the file are cleanly organized, intentionally named, and easy to access
Free of clutter, legacy components, and all the junk that just gets in the way
View templates established for making updates for multiple views at the same time.
Keynote values are managed in a way that all staff can make edits at the same time
Revit materials are set up and effectively used for graphic feedback and documentation purposes
We have removed unnecessary repetitive drafting tasks by the way things are set up
When starting projects a large portion of the setup that is required for every project is already complete and staff just make minor modifications as needed
Levels & Views Setup
Levels pre-set up for any common project type in the office
Horizontal plan views (floor plans, ceiling plans, Area Plans) are established for each level
View templates are pre-applied to existing views
Working views and other helpful project feedback views are established to assist with modeling efforts and project design
Presentation views, CAD Backgrounds, and other views tied to project processes are pre-established and ready for use
Multiple area types are established to calculate different code requirements such as Gross Building, Occupancy Use, and Type & Occ class with pre-established code values available to assign to areas
Section and Elevation views have types set up that filter their visibility throughout the set so they don't have to be hidden one at a time.
Section and Elevation view types are set to pre-apply appropriate view templates and organize themselves in the project browser accordingly
Views are well organized in the project browser and easy to find based on type.
As many views are pre-sheeted as possible
Built in QA/QC
Pre-applied materials are designed to achieve graphic modeling feedback that helps us know we got things right
Families are built with code checks and limitations that ensure we don't miss big things
Set up to utilize Revit as a database to help check for compliance issues
Sheet adjacent checklists to help staff document things appropriately
Code reference and design consideration notes throughout the set to help staff learn various requirements
Established system for indicating boiler plate items to be tailored to the project
Ways to turn off helpful notes and sheet tools at print time so they can be turned back on and remain useful after print.
Custom Parameters
Custom Parameters are set up for all of our documentation needs that coordinate with schedules and tags and our collection of families
Custom parameters are consistent across our collection of families which makes for quick documentation
Shared parameters are well managed, organized and applied effectively throughout the system
Shared parameters used to be able to edit multiple families at the same time
Project parameters are pre-set up and used effectively across the systems
Global parameters set up to turn on and off elements at print time across the set.
Sheet Setup
Most sheets needed for common project types already exists in the file with naming and numbering already established
Sheets and systems for managing them are in place and organized for various submittal processes
Sheet collections are set up for various submittal processes for quickly moving sheets to and from different sets
Sheet indexes are established for common submittal requirements and filtered by set configurations
Common consultant drawings are included in sheet indexes via data rows that don't use actual sheets
Built in Office Standards
Naming conventions in place so that it is easy to follow what is already there
Object styles are setup, reduced to what is needed, well organized and set to office standards
Office graphic standards are in place and set up to manage across the set for desired results
Dimension, line, and text types are well established, clean and concise
Annotation symbols, graphics, tags, etc. are established, clean, well labeled and ready to use on any project
Filled regions are well established and reduced to only those necessary so it is easy to know what to use in a given situation
Sheet notes are well managed, pre-sheeted and pre-established for the office
Sheet note strategy for selecting project type specific typical notes
Materials needed for documentation and rendering purposes are established and clearly organized
View templates are well established to achieve the desired graphical outcomes. (Better part of 5 years diligently updating our settings as we worked things out on active projects)
Well established view filters that are pre-applied to achieve greater graphic control where needed
Keynote values are well established and pre-applied to everything that uses them to make keynoting a breeze
Schedules Setup
Schedules are pre-established, pre-sheeted and ready to handle different project types
Schedules are established that help manage the model and documentation as part of a process
Schedules are coordinated with the collection of Revit families so they mostly schedule themselves when the correct family types are used
Schedules are set up to check for code compliance and modeling checks with parameters built into Revit families
Key schedules are set up to establish office standard schedule options available in various fields
Room finish schedule is well established
Set up to schedule materials applied in the model as a finish key. This helps to document design decisions made in the modeling along the way
Door schedule is set up to document extremely complex door sets but is easy to modify for simpler projects. It is also coordinated with our collection of door families
Custom Parameters needed for schedules and tags are set up, coordinated and consistent
Model Families Collection
Well built Revit families can help get Revit out of the way so that staff can focus on design and get to the architecture.
Model Family Collection
A comprehensive collection of Revit families for most of the needs of any project type
Staff spend way less time looking for families online or in past projects because they already have what they need in the collection
Families are well organized in a graphical collection and arranged by category so it is easy to find the families needed for projects.
Wall, floor, ceiling, roof, and other assembly families for most project types are established.
Assembly families are already designed to the correct thicknesses and materials to document well
Assembly families are pre-coordinated with assembly details and are generally ready for documentation with minor tweaks and adjustments
Assembly families are coordinated with materials and other settings for graphic control
Families are well coordinated with tags and schedules so that documentation is a breeze
Families already have the keynote, tag, or other values pre-assigned and coordinated with office documentation standards
Families are built with building code checks and design helps incorporated to make sure we get it right
Quality, Intentional
and Intuitive Families
Families are intuitive to use as a designer.
Making modifications is as simple as updating the correct parameter settings
Parameter settings are consistent, familiar, and easy to understand
No need to heavily modify families to get them to represent the way they need them to
Families are built so that one family covers most design options staff come up against
Families are designed to represent themselves well graphically and fit into office standards for graphic quality
Families are built with custom parameters that are designed to enhance workflows
Detailing Systems
Getting ahead of a well curated collection of details in an office can be a challenging task especially in the Revit echo system.
Detailing Setup
A comprehensive detail components collection that contains most of tools needed to draw the majority of details on a project
Detail components collection is well curated and organized graphically so staff know the kit of parts they have to work with
Detail components have been adjusted graphically for consistent line weights and drawing standards
Naming of components is well established, easy to understand, and implemented effectively on projects for consistency in documentation
Detail components are named as they will be tagged. This way staff know exactly what they are getting when searching for them in family selector
Effective tagging strategy to ensure that detail components are labeled consistently throughout the project but have the flexibility to easily add text before or after the label
Detailing Library
A well curated collection of clean, well vetted, Revit based details from which staff can start detailing work
Pre-drawn details contain code references and design helps to make sure they are tailored to the project and cover all of the angles
Newer staff are able to jump in on detailing efforts effectively as there are enough good examples to reference that they can learn good detailing practices to begin with
Devised good ways to make sure that boiler plate information doesn't end up in projects it doesn't belong to
Ways of tracking what code cycle details were last updated to
Process for quickly and graphically finding the details needed, isolating those details, and bringing them all into a project at the same time