Revit Harvesting

Harvesting in Revit is just the act of going back through a completed project and saving families, details, materials, annotations, legends, schedules, etc that were created for that specific project and driving those elements into the Revit Library and Templates.  Harvesting expands your library content, reduces time to recreate these elements and optimizes your templates for increased efficiency on future projects.

At GLHN I was approached by one of the Revit Techs on how he could help in the Revit optimization process.  This gentlemen has a depth of knowledge of previous projects and content location that is invaluable.  As such I suggested he create a spreadsheet that indentified the subject content and its location on the server. 

I didn't want to drive this content directly into the new Revit library we were creating without vetting it for appropriate attributes.  Specifically we want to:

> make sure it had the proper shared parameters so the new schedules could read its data and populate the
   schedule appropriately.
> categorize it based on the Masterformat spec number which drives the structure of our Library so we could 
   properly locate it within the Revit Library for future retrieval.
> review it for additional informational content.

This filtering and alignment of content going into the Revit Library is an essential quality control process that must continually occur.
                                                                                                                                                    c. kilgore