At Virtual Built, we typically create a federated Revit model for every project we work on. This allows us to run a host of automated processes on the links, right from the federated file.
Recently we received a dataset for a high rise building. The Architect had used 5 typical linked ‘module’ files, copied throughout a master file.
Initially, I used a Dynamo script to collect all the link instances into a saved selection set. I could then copy / paste aligned the link instances into our federated Revit model:
The Problem
This works fine, but in this models there were also nested consultant links inside the Architectural linked modules. So we have:
Architectural container file -> Architectural module files -> Consultant nested links
We want:
Federated Central file -> Everything else (no nested links)
Next challenge: how can we quickly promote those nested links into our federated model? Well, we currently have the module files populated,…