Content Catalog’s Saved Search feature is one tool you and your team could use to find content quickly. When setting up Saved Searches, you want to organize your saved content so that you aren’t jumping all over the place; instead, everything you need for a particular task is in the same place.

What items would be convenient for you to have grouped in one place?

Here are some examples:

These kinds of saved searches can house the Revit Template and commonly used items that normally would be stored in the Template file (for example, walls, doors, and windows that are company-standard). This allows you to multi-select and batch insert exactly what's needed and nothing more. Once Revit has been opened, when you select the image icon or Click to Insert, the template file will create a new Revit project.

Another way to save content is by grouping in the same way that you would organize the work on a project. For example, materials could be organized based on which ones are Enscape-ready. Or maybe you have searches organized by render-ready content, such as people, vegetation, and vehicles.

You can also save searches by area of work. For example, a Marketing team could group marketing materials, colors, and even by previous projects so that they are easier to find (if you tag content by a particular project, you can search for this tag in a saved search). A Company Standards category could store marketing colors, email signatures, letterhead stationery, etc.

Saved Searches also help you organize your company’s standards documents, how to’s, and best practices that your team can access quickly. For example, templates for common practices on projects, BIM standards/naming conventions, getting started guides, instructional videos, etc.

For more tips for using Content Catalog to organize your BIM content, check out our other Knowledge Base articles.