First post so be gentle 
Being relatively new to revit this could be quite simple. We've only been using the software full on for a little over a month, previous to that we had employed a temp to do the project in revit as we didn't have the time since our 3 day training course that my employer put me on. I did a little bit of Revit previous to this so have some understanding of the software, but now my role is getting more and more involved with it so I'm diving right in.
Query 1 - Basically we have modelled some apartments (Revit MEP 2016) and have hosted families to walls within the linked revit models. It appears fine, I've received an e-mail from the person at the Architect's practice we are working with informing me that items are hosted to the incorrect items. I.e. Hosted to the wall skim when it should be the plasterboard or vice versa.
When I select the family in our model it tells me that the host is 'Linked revit model : 'Name of revit model'', how do I go about seeing what an object is hosted too. Would I have to copy / monitor the walls into our model and then ensure it's hosted correctly this way? The issue with doing this however is when I do copy it brings in a basic wall.
Issues with this -
1) The client will be a pain if this generic wall is in the model when we issue ours. So everytime I issue I will have to delete every aspect of the architecturals model i.e. anything we copy.
2) The architects wall is made up of a large number of layers. How can I be certain that it is then hosted to the correct layer of the wall? Or will it simply be hosted to the 'wall' and I'm just overcomplicating this?
Query 2 - My next query i'm going to google in a moment as i've only just thought about this. When you issue you're model, what steps do you take to prepare it for issue? I.e. purging the file, removing views etc. When I did my very brief (not long enough) training course that work provided I vaguely remember that you could go into the revit symbol top left and maybe export the file for e-mail use? Or something similar, now my training was with 2018 (a newer version to what I need for our first job). However going through the options on my current revit I don't have that ability, is there an add on for this or similar?
Any help would be appreciated, I'm going to keep an eye on the forum and hopefully as my experience grows I will be able to help others in turn
Being relatively new to revit this could be quite simple. We've only been using the software full on for a little over a month, previous to that we had employed a temp to do the project in revit as we didn't have the time since our 3 day training course that my employer put me on. I did a little bit of Revit previous to this so have some understanding of the software, but now my role is getting more and more involved with it so I'm diving right in.
Query 1 - Basically we have modelled some apartments (Revit MEP 2016) and have hosted families to walls within the linked revit models. It appears fine, I've received an e-mail from the person at the Architect's practice we are working with informing me that items are hosted to the incorrect items. I.e. Hosted to the wall skim when it should be the plasterboard or vice versa.
When I select the family in our model it tells me that the host is 'Linked revit model : 'Name of revit model'', how do I go about seeing what an object is hosted too. Would I have to copy / monitor the walls into our model and then ensure it's hosted correctly this way? The issue with doing this however is when I do copy it brings in a basic wall.
Issues with this -
1) The client will be a pain if this generic wall is in the model when we issue ours. So everytime I issue I will have to delete every aspect of the architecturals model i.e. anything we copy.
2) The architects wall is made up of a large number of layers. How can I be certain that it is then hosted to the correct layer of the wall? Or will it simply be hosted to the 'wall' and I'm just overcomplicating this?
Query 2 - My next query i'm going to google in a moment as i've only just thought about this. When you issue you're model, what steps do you take to prepare it for issue? I.e. purging the file, removing views etc. When I did my very brief (not long enough) training course that work provided I vaguely remember that you could go into the revit symbol top left and maybe export the file for e-mail use? Or something similar, now my training was with 2018 (a newer version to what I need for our first job). However going through the options on my current revit I don't have that ability, is there an add on for this or similar?
Any help would be appreciated, I'm going to keep an eye on the forum and hopefully as my experience grows I will be able to help others in turn
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