Revit - Useful Naming Content Ideas

By Garry Stockton

File Naming in the Project Browser

1. Use only letters A-Z, hyphen, underscore and numbers 0-9 for all fields.
2. All fields shall be separated by a hyphen character “-” Do NOT use spaces.
3. Within a field, either CamelCase or an underscore “_” shall be used instead
   of a space to separate words.
4. A single period character "." shall be used to separate the file name from
   the extension. This character should not be used anywhere else in the file
   name.
5. The file extension shall not be amended or deleted.
6. An “XX” shall be used if the file does not refer to a single specific zone or level.
7. The scheme for zone and level sub-division shall be agreed with the other
   project professionals at the outset and defined in the Project BIM Strategy
   document.
8. Elements where a naming convention is not explicitly defined by this
   Standard shall adopt the naming convention of existing elements and prefix
   with a 3- character abbreviation to identify corporate author.