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Managing links

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Managing links

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- Link files are a very common aspect of any Revit project. One of the most common ways that we use links is to manage discipline. As the architect, I'll maintain my model and my team will work in that model and then we'll link in the structural model, we'll link in the MEP model and do coordination between the different disciplines. A big advantage of links, of course, is that when the structural team or the MEP team makes changes to their model, we can just simply reload those changes and it will update our instance of the link. It's a very powerful feature and something that we use in almost every project we do in Revit, but the challenge that we have when building a project template is that links depend on the file names, links depend on the path locations of the actual file that you're linking. It's a little bit challenging to be able to pre-configure the behavior you want links to have. What I've got here is a file called "Links" and if I zoom in here in the lower, middle…

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