Placeholder Links in Revit Tutorial (Office Hour Sessions)

Summary

このビデオでは、RevitやBIMを使用している設計チームが、プロジェクトを効率的に管理するために知っておくべきテンプレート内のリンク管理方法について詳しく説明しています。特に、MEPファイルや構造ファイルなど、典型的なファイルの取り扱いや、プレースホルダーリンクの作成方法、そしてそれらをテンプレートに統合して、新しいプロジェクト開始時の作業を簡略化する方法に焦点を当てています。このアプローチにより、ビジビリティグラフィックスやフィルターなどの設定を毎回行う代わりに、設定をテンプレートに保存し、新しいプロジェクトでこれらのプレースホルダーを実際のファイルで簡単に置き換えることができます。このプロセスは、設計チームが効率的に作業を進め、一貫性を保つのに役立ちます。

Takeaways

• 😃 You can set up placeholder links in a template to preconfigure visibility/graphics settings that will apply when you reload those links with actual models later
• 📝 It's helpful to create empty placeholder link files so you have something to link into for setting up configurations
• 🔍 The placeholder links allow you to set visibility, graphics overrides, filters etc. that will persist when you reload the actual link
• 🌟 Setting things up through links allows you to control visibility of elements like walls independently between linked models vs host model
• ✨ You can delete the placeholder files after creating a template - the link configurations remain even if Revit says the links are not found
• 📑 For view-specific settings, you can create view templates in your template file and apply those to placeholder views
• 🔧 The key difference between link settings and view templates is controlling model elements vs view display
• 🎯 View templates impact the whole project. Link settings only impact the linked model
• 💡 It's easiest to make a template from an existing good project then customize further
• 🌻 Configuring links in advance saves time as you don't have to manually set all the options each time you link a new model

Q & A

RevitやBIMを使用している設計チームが行うべきことは何ですか？

RevitやBIMを使用している全ての設計チームは、モデルを常にオンにしておくべきです。これにより、設計プロセスがより効率的かつ効果的になります。

Revitテンプレート内でリンクを管理する方法の特別なコンセプトとは何ですか？

Revitテンプレート内でリンクを管理する特別なコンセプトには、プレースホルダーリンクを作成して使用することが含まれます。これにより、新しいプロジェクトを開始する際に、毎回リンクの設定を行う必要がなくなります。

プレースホルダーリンクとは何ですか？

プレースホルダーリンクは、Revitファイル内に存在するが、実際には空のRevitファイルであるリンクです。これらは、特定の設定をテンプレートに組み込むために使用されます。

Revitテンプレートを使用して新しいプロジェクトを開始する際のプレースホルダーリンクの役割は何ですか？

プレースホルダーリンクは、新しいプロジェクトを開始する際に、既存の設定を新しいリンクに適用するために使用されます。これにより、設定を一から設定する手間が省けます。

Revitでプレースホルダーリンクを作成する際に必要なファイルは何ですか？

プレースホルダーリンクを作成するには、空のRevitファイルが必要です。これらのファイルは、特定の設定をテンプレートに組み込むために使用されます。

Revitテンプレートでのリンクの可視性グラフィックスとフィルターの設定方法は？

Revitテンプレートでは、プレースホルダーリンクを使用して、リンクの可視性グラフィックスとフィルターをあらかじめ設定できます。これにより、新しいリンクが追加されたときに、これらの設定を自動的に適用できます。

新しいプロジェクトでプレースホルダーリンクを実際のファイルに置き換える際の手順は？

プレースホルダーリンクを実際のファイルに置き換えるには、「リロードから」機能を使用して、プレースホルダーリンクを新しいリンクに置き換え、テンプレートに設定された可視性グラフィックスとフィルター設定を保持します。

Revitテンプレートでビューテンプレートを使用する利点は何ですか？

ビューテンプレートを使用することで、プロジェクト全体で一貫した表示設定を保証し、新しいビューを追加するたびに設定を繰り返す手間を省くことができます。

Revitプロジェクトでリンクに特定の表示設定を適用する方法は？

リンクに特定の表示設定を適用するには、プレースホルダーリンクを使用してリンクの可視性グラフィックスとフィルターを設定し、その後、実際のリンクにこれらの設定を適用します。

Revitテンプレートのアップグレードの重要性は何ですか？

テンプレートをアップグレードすることで、最新の機能と改善点をテンプレートに組み込み、プロジェクトの効率性と効果性を向上させることができます。

Outlines

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📽 テンプレート内のリンクの管理方法

パウルからの質問で、テンプレート内での構造図や設備図などのリンクの可視性やフィルターの管理方法について説明しています。空のプレースホルダー файлを作成し、そこで表示設定をしておけば、後からそのプレースホルダーを実際のファイルと置き換えるだけで、すべての設定が反映されるという方法が紹介されています。

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📑 ビューテンプレートとの関係

Placeholderファイルでの設定と、テンプレート自体にビューテンプレートで設定する方法の違いについて質問が出ています。Placeholderによる方法は、リンクされたファイルに特化した設定ができるメリットがあるとの回答です。カテゴリ単位での制御ではできない、壁の非表示やダクトの色付けなどが可能になります。

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💡 設定の適用範囲

Placeholderによるリンクファイルの設定は、そのプロジェクト固有のもので、メインモデルには影響しないことが確認されています。構造図や設備図を取り込む際に毎回行う作業を軽減できるメリットがある、とまとめられています。

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Highlights

Use placeholder links in a template to set up visibility, graphics, filters for consultants before starting a project.

Placeholder links persist in a template even if the files don't exist, so you can set defaults that carry over.

When starting a new project from the template, replace placeholders with actual links and retain settings.

Create view templates in the main template file to control visibility of linked models across views.

View templates for links let you override settings like halftone for external walls that you can't affect globally.

Use filters with placeholder links to color linked elements like ductwork based on parameter rules.

Links let you force visibility settings without affecting main model view templates.

Make placeholder links first to create visibility settings, then make view templates for consistency.

Template view settings carry over to new projects when you replace placeholder links.

Visibility settings for linked files must be created with links already present.

Create templates from good projects by extracting their best view configurations.

Use asterisks in placeholder names to push them to top/bottom when linking.

Link settings let you change more than global views, like turning off linked walls.

Views inherit settings through both view templates and link placeholder configurations.

Can't set link overrides without the placeholders there first in the template.

Transcripts

you can have it turn off walls but your

walls stay on so that's why it's in

there right yes that's it or like or

filter

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to process that if you are using revit

if you're using bim

every single design team should be doing

this i've got a lot of my architect

friends out there you are actually the

ones who need to hear this more than

anything

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but keeping even if you draft everything

you should still keep the model on

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but paul did ask a very specific

question which i thought was cool a cool

a cool concept that i don't think a lot

of people know about is how do you

manage

how do you manage links within your

template so i think what you're asking

um and correct me if i'm wrong but i

think this is what is is when you're

bringing in files so maybe you have an

mep file a structural file uh the trust

file you're talking about whatever it is

right you have very specific and

probably pretty typical files that are

coming in um with the obvious being the

mep structure and you know any

consultants

um you know how do you how do you manage

those within a template so that you know

things like visibility graphics and

filters and all these things that are

coming up

how do you manage that in a template so

you're not doing those every single time

you bring in a new link if i was to open

up

one of my

a template file

so this is one of my older residential

templates which i still use i just

haven't upgraded uh i probably should

just upgrade and save it but

it's a 2016 template that i've just been

using and so this is kind of the

residential template but

um

what you what you do is you create

placeholder links um and what's cool

about a placeholder link is that it

exists within your file um initially you

you

you have to create a file for it there

doesn't necessarily need to be anything

in the file it's helpful when there is

because you can set these things up but

um so right now if this is my template

file if i go to insert manage links you

can see

i've got nothing here

but i have these

placeholder files which are just empty

revit files if you want to use existing

files you can but they're just empty

revit files right so i made mep site and

structural placeholder links so what i'm

going to do is i'm going to

so i'm going to

i'm going to insert all three of these

i should probably just go to manage

links it'll be quicker

so i have a site in mep and you can name

them however you want some people like

to put asterisks before it or something

so that they always get linked but those

are gonna make a huge difference or they

always get

pushed to the top or bottom

all right so these are just empty files

but now that you have a link in here

even if the template can't find those

links because they may not exist you

know down the road what you can do is

now you can actually set up right you

can set up your visibility graphics of

the links if you want so if you want to

go through custom and you know i want to

turn off

maybe i want to turn off

everything except for

i don't know maybe duct stuff

or something like that

um

and then maybe i want to have my my

structural model i want to have uh

it'll always be half tone you know that

kind of stuff right or i can even do

filters through links i mean you get the

idea so now what you can do is you can

actually these placeholder links have

all of your settings built into them

whether it's by view whether it's by

project etc

and that is built into your template so

then when you start a new project so now

i'm just gonna i'm gonna save this

template so remember this is my rte file

so i'm just saving this template

and i probably should have renamed it

2020 because now i just upgraded it but

that's okay it's a separate file so now

when i go to new

and i start my

my project

so now i still have right if i go to

manage links i still have these links

here if they were moved they would say

not loaded but they would still

right there would still be something

there

okay

and all of your settings are still there

even though the link's not loaded your

settings are still there so then when i

have my real file all i do is i click

this i use my placeholder and i reload

from and so i'm reloading from

but all of my settings still remain

okay

so now

if i

go here you'll notice the only thing

that's showing is ducks

and diffusers and it's halftone or

something like that right

because remember i set up those settings

through the link which i just reloaded

from i didn't replace i didn't remove i

reloaded from so you're using a

placeholder to set up all of your stuff

right all your filters all your phasing

whatever the heck you're doing and then

when you get the project when you start

the project you just replace that

placeholder with the real file and all

of your stuff notice how all of my

custom display is all still there and

that was built inside my template i was

gonna ask are you setting up in those in

those like

uh placeholder files

are you setting up um

all the views and everything because it

seems

like when you're doing what you had

shown when you're managing the links

um like you had a 3d

visibility i mean how does that apply to

all the other views can you set that up

first of all in a placeholder how you

want to have all of that seen

and then when you replace it does that

work or

yeah how does that work it does so so

what i was suggesting i was shown

quickly just using graph graphics

overrides but it but if you're if you're

talking about you know setting up the

full on template you know i would

definitely suggest creating view

templates and then having those view

templates assigned to your views and

then within those view templates right

you can have you can have the the

graphics settings so

um so you know if if i was to let's

maybe i go to the first floor

which probably won't when you're when

you say set up the view templates you

mean in the placeholder file or in the

the

parent file that you're importing

right in your template file not in the

place the placeholder files only exist

because revit needs an rvt to create

those links right and so so the reality

is once i create those placeholder files

they don't need to be seen anymore by

the template right so if i you know if i

went in and i

let me close this delete

so if i went and i took these

placeholder links and i

deleted them

yeah right and then i create a new file

of course it's not pointing there so i

gotta go find it again

you can see my screen right i'm sorry

yeah okay yeah so now i just created a

new project using that template which

had the placeholder links

um if i go under insert manage links i

got to get out of

drafting because it's annoying see so

they still exist oops yeah but they just

say not found

right right and so now that all the

settings still apply to those and you

can still just replace them but if you

were you know my settings were just the

3d view but if i

um i mean i'm in the project now i'm not

in the template the same the same rules

apply so in here if i went in and i said

you know this specific view

you know you know

for me creating templates was always

easier using good projects and taking

the good parts of it right and so you

know maybe you have a view set up or

even a view template already and a

specific project that works for you but

so let's just say this is the view so in

this one i'm going to do

half tone

and um

and i don't know i'm just going to half

tone on the nep

and so what i can do now this is only

the specific view but right i can make a

view template so if i

under uh under view if i say create

template from current view

i can call this one floor plan whoa

caps lock that's bizarre

floor plan

mep gray i mean obviously you want more

information than that but whatever so so

now

anyone that has this

anyone that has this view template and

so i can go through and manage this

stuff but right now the visibility

graphics override through links is right

here see how halftone's there

nice and so now i can assign these floor

plans and this can be done after the

fact or before the fact doesn't make a

difference but um

i'm going to assign these floor plans a

view template right here

and there's my view template

and now when i bring in my link

you know even even though you know again

it's all set up through the placeholder

if i replace this guy

with the actual file all those templates

are going to apply to all those views

so that'll work for filters graphic

overrides you name it whatever it is

and so i don't know where where this mep

stuff's going there it is see so it's

half tones

is that any better than just setting up

view templates inside your

um

inside your

template file and then anytime you link

to something

that you just use is it is it different

is it better

to have it first through the link or

just set up your view templates anyway

and then it just you know well it

applies

so i i think what you're saying is if

if in your view template you have some

linked information there right is that

kind of

the the problem is

um you need to have the placeholder

links here in order to create those so

so yes i mean i'm doing it in the

project but yeah ideally you're setting

myself in the template yeah i get it

right and then when you start your

project the templates are there but you

can't create the visibility graphics for

a link unless a link is there in your

template yeah this is this is just like

a view template

i mean i can have a view template that

says make all my ducts

you know dash lines right yeah and that

yes and that would be i could do that

just in a regular view template but if

i've got a link i can force the a lot

more stuff on the link right right so so

then just exactly so if you know

things like duck maybe not the best

example because you know that's that's a

category that you can you can affect the

global view right right but let's say

let's say your mep model has walls on it

and you don't want to see their walls

you can have it turn off walls but your

walls stay on so that's why it's in

there right yes that's it or like or

filter or filtering right you can't yeah

let's say you want to color all of the

duct work a specific color or a specific

you know based on a rule built in a

filter um you have to do that with a

link set up right you can't do that uh

using a global project set up right so

yeah but i think that i think that's

that's where you're getting i think yeah

i think we're both going no that makes

sense now because it seems like then

what you're doing is you're saying i'm

gonna take whatever is linked

get special parameters

on that and the views of that yes that

don't affect what my major model is what

my main model is exactly so if you

specific to a link yes so so like if

you're if you're always bringing in an

mep file or a structural file and every

time you bring it in you're hiding their

walls you're hiding their floors you're

you're you know you're making sure that

they're

they're wide flanges or half toned or

you know all that stuff that you do

every time you bring a lincoln you can

set all that up ahead of time um and

then this way

in this way all you're doing is just

reloading or replacing that placeholder

with the real file and then it's all

done for you

okay that makes sense