Model management and troubleshooting are advanced topics that are connected to each other. Mostly BIM managers handle tasks related to these subjects; however, the way you build and organize your work contributes to how the project is managed from the BIM perspective.

If the project model(s) are well managed, troubleshooting becomes easier. For example, the reason for elements showing incorrectly on your floor plan can be easily tracked down if standard visibility settings are applied in the project.

We mentioned earlier that it is recommended that you start thinking about materials and their visibility in different views and renderings from the beginning of the modeling process. Trying to assign and organize the materials of the individual elements of a complex model takes a lot of time after the elements have already been placed. This is an example of a model management problem.