Perform basic model maintenance

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in this video, you'll learn how to resolve common errors and warnings in a model,

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you'll also see how to purge items from a project.

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Additionally, we will discuss auditing and compacting models

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as well as the implications of exploding A. D. W. G. File.

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All rabbit users should be focused on model maintenance,

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focusing on good health in your model will help the model perform at an optimal level

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and this is beneficial to everyone working in the project.

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To begin,

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everyone needs to make sure that errors and warnings are resolved,

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errors must be resolved immediately

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rev it will not let you continue when you receive an error

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and so really you just need to focus on whatever the dialogue tells you to do

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and this is usually undoing the previous action or deleting an element,

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warnings on the other hand can build up in the background and really be unnoticed

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to see the warnings in your project,

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switch to the manage tab,

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then in the inquiry panel

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click review warnings.

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This opens a dialog showing you all of the warnings in your project.

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In this exercise

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there are several common warnings,

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such as room tag is outside of its room.

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Multiple rooms are in the same enclosed region

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and if we scroll down we can see some other common ones.

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Elements have duplicate mark values and so on and so forth.

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So really you just need to expand the warning

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and you can see the specific warnings and then keep

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expanding that to see the specific elements in the

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warning that need to be addressed in some way.

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For example,

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if we expand the elements have duplicate mark

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values and then expand one of the warnings.

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We can see the actual element I. D. S.

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You can jot down those element I. D. S.

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And then click close and then back in the inquiry panel, click select by I. D.

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And this opens the select elements by I. D. Dialogue

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and I'll enter the element I. D. For one of the elements.

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And then I can click show to have rev it show me that element. Or I can simply click OK.

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And rev it will select the element.

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Now this is one of those that has a duplicate mark value

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and if I'm not using the mark I can simply remove it altogether

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and that should address that warning.

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Now if we go back and look at the warnings I can expand the elements

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have duplicate mark values and now there's only one warning there instead of two.

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And so really most of the warnings can be addressed pretty easily.

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It's just a matter of taking the time to go in there and resolve them.

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Such as room tag is outside of room.

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Just need to move that room tag back inside the room or

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enable a leader and just continue working your way through the list.

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I'll click close to close this dialog

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and next on the manage tab in the settings panel. I'll click purge unused.

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It's also good to periodically purge certain families and

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types that are not going to be used.

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Typically I recommend that the first thing you do

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when you open this dialog is to click check none

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because another thing that you don't want to

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do is purge every single unused item from the

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project because there's likely several of them that

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actually need to be used at some point.

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At this point you can scroll through the list of families

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and expand various categories and select specific families and types.

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For example, if I expand the doors category,

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I can then see

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the various families

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and some of them. I can select the entire family whereas some I cannot

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and if you cannot select the family, that means that some of the types are in use.

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So you can expand that listing and then select a specific type.

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So you can either select the entire family and all the

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types associated with it or you may need to select individual types

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and you can just work your way through the list here and select

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specific families and types that you know are not going to be used.

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And then you can continue to scroll to the bottom and see

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groups and you can even purge groups as well as other styles where

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you can see things like arrowheads and materials and material assets and text

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types and once again you can expand those and select various types.

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Once you have selected the items that you want,

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you can see the number of items checked at the bottom

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and as well as additional number of imported

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categories to purge and then you can click OK

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to purge those items from

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your project

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continuing on.

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The audit feature can be used for any rabbit file,

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whether it's a work shared project or even a non work shared project.

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But it's really important when it comes to work shared projects,

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I'm going to click open on the quick access toolbar

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and then I'm going to select the Central Model exercise file.

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You typically do not want to open the Central model,

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but when it comes to model maintenance,

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you can open the central model as long as no one's in there.

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This is something that you typically do after hours and I'm

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gonna de select create new local and then I will select audit

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and an audit warning dialog appears stating that this could take a long time.

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And the reason is because rev it is actually going to scan all of the elements in the

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project and look for elements that have been corrupted

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and it's going to try to fix them.

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So when you get this dialog you can click OK?

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And then you can click open to begin the auditing process

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and this is a small project. So it doesn't take that long.

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But if you have a larger project it could take quite some time.

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The auditing process does not necessarily tell you what has been fixed.

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But it is, it is something that you want to do on a regular basis,

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usually at least once a week.

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Also when you synchronize with central,

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for example on the quick access toolbar,

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I'll click synchronize and modify settings.

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You can see that at the top. There is an option to compact the central model.

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This is also something that can be done to help compact

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the file to help with the better health of the file.

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So I'm going to select compact central model and I'm

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going to relinquish borrowed elements and then I'll click.

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Ok?

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So depending on the size of your projects and

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the number of users working on the projects,

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you can come up with a maintenance plan to audit

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your projects as well as compact the central models.

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Lastly,

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one thing that everyone needs to be aware of that can negatively affect a project

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is when a D W G file has been imported and then it's exploded.

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That can really add a lot of extra data to the project that you do not need.

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And so that's something that should be added to some type of project standards

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that no one should ever do to help with the health of a project