What is the solution to this everyday problem? Container files. It never stops until the day that you submit final plans. Another day goes by and someone else needs a level turned on or off so you start the process all over again. a couple of days later, someone from another discipline has a NEW reference file that he wants to be displayed in the cut sheets, so now you have to attach another reference file 50 more times. The project manager takes a look at the sheets and says he doesn’t want to see level X on in reference file 2, now you have to go into 50 files and turn off level X. Once your cut sheets are all set and the design is moving along, changes to the reference files are inevitable. See image below.Īttaching these many reference files is time consuming on its own but let’s take it a step further. I have 3 reference files that I need to attach in each of these files, so, 50 x 3 = 150 reference files I am attaching. I have a job with 50 cut sheets for proposed work. It is situations like this that container files can save you time AND money. but unfortunately files like these exist. There is no need to have separate files for watermain, storm, sanitary, etc. Part of the problem is that people create too many master files for a job, for example I have seen multiple separate existing utility files created that can be consolidated to one file. MicroStation reference files can be time consuming and costly, especially on large jobs.
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