System / Project Template

Your Template is the heart of your production system.

It is the source of truth for graphical standards, sheet setup, distribution system settings, symbols, lineweights, phasing, and more. It is where you store the look and feel of your drawings.

Half-finished or cobbled-together Templates are a liability. They result in inconsistent graphical standards, and require too much work on every project. They cause headaches for the production team for the life of the project.

HVAC Sheets

It doesn't have to be this way. When built right and tuned for your practice, your Template can be your secret weapon. Imagine:

  • Set up a typical project in less than an hour, from "the architect just transmitted their model" to "here's the full set check plot, ready for production."
  • All discipline sheets look like they came from the same company.
  • Production staff doesn't have to fiddle with visibility settings - everything just works right out of the gate.

This is why we spent so much time developing the RevX Template, and why we continuously improve it. The quality of your Template matters tremendously.

We've set up hundreds of models ourselves, and we've helped clients set up hundreds more. Everything from 1,000sf tenant improvements to million square foot tech campuses. Everything in our Template is designed for simplicity, speed, and adaptability.

Plumbing Riser Diagrams
  • The RevX Template is subtractive. Views for all disciplines are set up for nine floor levels, two roof levels, and two basement levels. When you delete the levels that don't exist in your project, all the associated levels go away.
  • The RevX Template does away with the hack of using worksets like visibility layers, and uses Filters. It's more powerful, more adaptable, and doesn't rely on modelers remembering to set the right workset.
  • The RevX Template comes with placeholder links already inserted. This means that instead of inserting a new Revit link, you do a Reload From, and the backgrounds will already look good. For a lot of projects, this is all you'll need to do. Background cleanup is already done.

There is a lot more in our Template that helps you get your projects into production fast. Our Training Videos cover model setup extensively.

Lighting Plans

For a lot of firms, their Template and standards is a constant struggle.

Your Template can be your secret weapon.

Inside the Project Template

A few of the pieces you inherit on day one.

The Revit Project Browser for REVX-V1_TEMPLATE_R23, with views under a three tier sort: Project Setup, Coordination, then a branch per discipline, each split into numbered sheet view groups and a working folder.
Organized view structure.
The Project Browser sheet list, numbered and grouped by discipline: E000 through ED114 for electrical, M000 through MD102 for mechanical, and P001 onward for plumbing.
Sheet organization.
A list of mechanical view template names covering sheet plans, sections, RCPs, roof plans, 3D views, and separate working views for existing, new work, and phases.
View templates.
The Visibility and Graphic Overrides dialog on the Filters tab for a mechanical sheet plan, with filters for supply, return, exhaust, outside, and transfer duct each carrying its own surface pattern colour, plus halftone set on plumbing and roof equipment.
Filters for graphical standards.
The Revit type selector for text, listing a short and predictable set of types: NOTE 3/32 inch and its schedule, transparent, blue, and red variants, then title sizes from small 1/8 inch up to big 1/2 inch.
Clean standard text types.

RevX is built to work.

Do production in Revit fast and well, without a BIM department. Put together coordinated models that save you time during construction. Spend fee on engineering and design, not on fighting software.