Workflow and Site Modeling - Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Essentials - page 313

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Errors and warnings are all essentially types of issues Revit Architecture has
when it tries to resolve geometry, conflicts, or formulas that do not equate.
Things that appear in this dialog box include instances of multiple elements sit-
ting directly on top of each other, thereby creating inaccurate schedule counts;
wall joints that do not properly clean themselves up; wall and room separation
lines overlapping; stairs that have the wrong number of risers between floors;
and so on. This dialog box shows you all the times the yellow warning box
appeared in the bottom-right corner of the screen and you ignored it. Errors
that go unchecked can compound to create other errors and can also lead to
inaccurate reporting in schedules or even file corruption. Check the Warnings
dialog box regularly as part of your periodic file maintenance, and try to keep
the number of instances to a minimum.
Notice that the Warnings dialog box has an Export feature. Use this feature
to export your error list to an HTML file so you can read it at your leisure out-
side the model environment (Figure 13.12). You can also pull this list into a
Microsoft Word or Excel document so you can distribute the errors across the
team to be resolved.

FIgUre 13.12 Exporting errors and warnings

In the example shown in Figure 13.12, using the Phillips Place model, the file
has 118 errors and warnings. How many errors in a file are too many? Much of
that depends on your model, your computer's capabilities, the error types, and
your deliverable. For instance, if you are delivering a BIM model to your client
or to the contractor, you might have a zero-error requirement. In that case, no