Working with phases

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After completing this lesson, you will be able to understand phases, work with phases, and set phase and phase filters.

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The objective domains covered are, 3.3a, use phase filters.

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Construction phasing is very important to help understand the correct sequence of construction,

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the required materials, and various different assets that are required.

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Revit can create construction phases and assign elements and parts to each phase.

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Documentation can then be produced to show each phase.

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Phase filters and graphic overrides control how the different phases appear in each drawing view.

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Go ahead and open up the model 033-Working with phases.

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The model opens up in a 3D view.

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This particular 3D view that we're looking at, at the minute has a section box applied.

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So I've used a section box to hide all the levels above that currently don't have a phase associated with elements or parts.

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All of the elements and parts we see in the screen here have phases applied.

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So for example, if I select this tunnel here, you can see in the Properties palette that we have a phase created,

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which is 0-Existing Tunnel, and it's not demolished.

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Let's have a look at another example. Let's select this floor slab here.

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And once again, you will see the phase created here is phase 10, and again, it's not demolished.

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So what if these elements have phases assigned to them?

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Currently now, we don't have a selection set applied, so the Properties palette is displaying the properties of the active view.

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So, of course, you will see that we have things such as view scale, detail level, and so on.

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Right down the bottom of the Properties palette, we have phasing.

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And you'll notice here that we have current active phase, Phase 1-Piling.

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However, the display doesn't look any different, and the reason for this is because we have no phase filters currently operational.

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Let's now set a phase filter.

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So here I'm going to ask Revit to show anything that's newly constructed and its previous phase.

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So of course, you'll see here that the newly constructed items, which are the piles, all shown in blue, and the previous phase is shown in gray.

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Let's now change the active phase. So the active phase now is phase 1.

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Let's now have a look at phase 2.

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And of course, you'll now see in phase 2, we can see the slabs cast, but of course, now the piles and the tunnel are on a previous phase.

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Let's jump ahead and perhaps look at 4a-Steel Columns.

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So again here, you can see we have some kickers cast and also our steel columns erected here, but everything else is in a previous phase.

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So let's now take a look at the setup of these phases.

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Select the Manage ribbon and here you'll notice we have phases.

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Let's go ahead and select Phases.

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The Phasing dialog box opens and you'll note here we have three tabs: projects phases, phase filters, and graphic overrides.

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So the Project Phases are showing me what are the phases that I've set up in this active project.

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For example, if I would like to add another one in here, perhaps phase 14, you'll notice here we can insert after or before a selection set.

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So here, I can insert a new one, and in here I can just type in a name.

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So in here, we might have First Floor Kickers.

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And we can also then present a description for this as well.

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So I could just copy and paste perhaps in there, and click "OK", and then that would create that new phase.

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I could then assign that to different elements in the project.

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The next tab we can look at is Phase Filters.

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So you'll see here that we've only currently got two phase filters in this particular project.

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I either show everything, if nothing is overridden, or here I can show a newly built object and the previous phase.

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Now you'll note here with this example, we have shown you in previous, so the new object is overridden, the previous set elements are also overridden.

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Anything that's demolished or is a temporary structure is currently not displayed.

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Finally, let's select Graphic Overrides.

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So here we have those phase statuses.

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So you can see here we have the existing status, currently in line work, that's going to show as gray.

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And you can see it's using the material here, phase-existing.

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This particular material I've made gray.

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You can then see we have a new phase, and in here I've overridden this to appear blue,

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and again, the material is set to phase-new, and I've created the material here again to be blue.

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Let's now have a look at creating a new phase filter.

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So perhaps what I want to do, rather than actually seeing the existing objects that were previously constructed in previous phases,

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I might just want to isolate the newly built components.

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So let's go ahead here and create a new phase filter.

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So here, we can type in Show New.

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So newly created objects, we're going to use the overridden style.

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So you may remember that's going to appear shaded in blue.

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And also if I use a hidden line, it'll come out in the blue hidden line outline.

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Existing phases are not displayed, demolished is not displayed, and temporary is not displayed.

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Let's go ahead and select "OK" to our Phasing dialog box.

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And now you'll notice in order of the views, if I go to phase filters, I have that new phase filter Show New.

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And of course here, it will only display newly created elements.

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So let's now step through some more phases. So if we go to Phase 4, which is the Column Base Plates.

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Here, I just get displayed the column base plate itself.

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Let's go back and look at the Basement Walls.

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So again here, I can see my grade beams and my pile caps and the kickers for the columns.

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Finally, when creating documentation of your phases, you'll need to duplicate the views and then create new phase filters.

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So for example, here you can see that I have a view 3D Phase Model.

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I'm going to go ahead and rename this and I'll call this one Phase 3.

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We'll then go ahead and duplicate this view.

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And here, I can rename this one. Let's call this one Phase 2.

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Ok, so for the properties of our new view Phase 2, we can set the phase to Phase 2.

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And then finally, we'll duplicate again.

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And here we'll rename this one, I'm going to call this Phase 1.

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And of course, we'll set our active phase in the Properties palette to Phase 1.

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So if you want to present these onto some drawing sheets now, of course, we can come down to our sheet list,

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and you'll see here, for example, I've got a sheet Phase 1 Build.

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And we can then drag and drop our 3D view, Phase 1 onto the drawing sheet.

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Now, of course, when we create schedules, we can also incorporate a phase in our schedule.

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So you'll notice here that I have a schedule setup for our Phase 1 materials, and of course, I can then position that on the same drawing sheet.

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So this just tells me we need concrete, and this much concrete for this particular construction phase.

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Let's do one more. So let's go ahead and open up Phase 2 Build.

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So again, I can go and find my Phase 2 3D model, drag and drop this onto the drawing sheet.

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Then we can go and find our Phase 2 Material Takeoff and again, position that one onto the drawing sheet.

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And of course, once again, if we wanted to see previous phases within our drawing, we can select the View,

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and of course, we can now change our Phase Filter to the previous one we had, which was Show New phase and Previous construction.