Closing Worksets

[brd]

After browsing around the AU Online website, I read the syllabus for the Tips and Lessons for CAD Managers class and found an interesting comment. It recommends that "Closing" worksets rather than turning them off in Visibility Graphics. What is the difference in these two? What does "closing" a workset mean and what does it do to the visibility in the project? I looked through the Revit Help Menu and couldn't find a reference to "closing" worksets. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could shed some light on this topic for me. Thanks a lot!

[irwin]

In the Worskets dialog there is a column "Opened". You can close a workset by setting this to "No", or by selecting the row for that workset and picking the "Close" button. Even better, when you are opening the file, in the Open dialog there is a pull-down called "Open Worksets". Set that to "Specify". Then click "Open". Mark worksets closed in the subsequent dialog to keep them from being opened in the first place.

The differences between closing the workset and turning off visibility are:
- Visibility is per view, while closing the workset hides it in all views.
- Visibility is a saved setting; every subsequent time you open the file it remembers whether each workset should be visible in each view. Closing worksets is temporary -- it is generally forgotten the next time you open the file (though there is a way to tell it to use the previous configuration).
- Because closing a workset hides it in all views, if you close the workset when opening the file it often doesn't need to load most of the elements of that workset into memory, so you save a lot of memory. This can improve performance.

Generally you should use visibility if you want to permanently change the way a sheet will look when plotted. Use workset closing when you are just trying to improve performance by temporarily hiding stuff you don't need to see in the current session.

[Jmhanby]

In the Worskets dialog there is a column "Opened". You can close a workset by setting this to "No", or by selecting the row for that workset and picking the "Close" button. Even better, when you are opening the file, in the Open dialog there is a pull-down called "Open Worksets". Set that to "Specify". Then click "Open". Mark worksets closed in the subsequent dialog to keep them from being opened in the first place.

The differences between closing the workset and turning off visibility are:
- Visibility is per view, while closing the workset hides it in all views.
- Visibility is a saved setting; every subsequent time you open the file it remembers whether each workset should be visible in each view. Closing worksets is temporary -- it is generally forgotten the next time you open the file (though there is a way to tell it to use the previous configuration).
- Because closing a workset hides it in all views, if you close the workset when opening the file it often doesn't need to load most of the elements of that workset into memory, so you save a lot of memory. This can improve performance.

Generally you should use visibility if you want to permanently change the way a sheet will look when plotted. Use workset closing when you are just trying to improve performance by temporarily hiding stuff you don't need to see in the current session.

WHAT IS THAT SETTING TO USE THE PREVIOUS CONFIGURATION?