Autodesk 256B1-05A761-1301 - AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite 2010, User Manual

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Project Phasing
Many projects, such as renovations, proceed in phases, each representing a distinct time period in the life of the project.
Revit Architecture tracks the phase in which views or elements are created or demolished. It lets you create phases and
phase filters that you can apply to views, which define how the project appears during various stages of work. You can
also use phase filters to control the flow of building model information into views and schedules. This allows you to create
phase-specific project documentation, complete with schedules.
You can apply phases to schedules. For example, in a large renovation project, a door schedule would usually list all doors
created in the project. In a building with hundreds of doors, the schedule could become difficult to work with, because
the demolished doors would be listed with the post-renovation doors. Instead of working with a schedule in which half
of the doors are eventually demolished, you could create one pre-demolition schedule and one post-renovation schedule,
applying the appropriate phase to each. See
Applying a Phase to a Schedule on page 189.
Related topic
■ Phase-Specific Rooms and Boundaries on page 998
Phase Properties
You can create as many phases as necessary and assign building model elements to specific phases. You can
also make multiple copies of a view and apply different phases and phase filters to the different copies.
Phase Properties for Views
Each view in Revit Architecture has a Phase property and a Phase Filter property.
■ The Phase property is the name of the view phase. When a view is opened or created, it automatically
has a Phase value. You can copy a view and then select a different phase value for that view. For example,
the original view has Phase 1; the copy has Phase 2. You create an element in Phase 1 and demolish it
in Phase 2. The element displays as new in the original and as demolished in the copy. See
Creating
Phases on page 1332.
■ The Phase Filter property lets you control the display of elements in a view. For example, demolished
walls may display in blue dashed lines, while existing elements display in solid black lines. You can apply
a phase filter to a view to see elements from one or more specified phases. See
Phase Filters on page 1333.
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