Chapter 7. Working with Consultants

Whether you work on large or small projects—on residential, commercial, or industrial building types—collaboration is an almost certain aspect of the workflow you will encounter when implementing BIM. This chapter will discuss important considerations for interdisciplinary coordination as well as the tools within Revit to help manage the process. While this chapter will cover aspects of collaboration solely utilizing the Revit platform, Chapter 8, "Interoperability: Working Multiplatform," will focus on collaborating with other software programs.

In this chapter, you'll learn to:

  • Prepare for interdisciplinary collaboration

  • Collaborate using linked Revit models

  • Use Copy/Monitor between linked models

  • Run interference ...

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