Wow... Worksets are soooo much better now in 8.1...

[hand471037]

Just wanted to take a moment and thank the Factory for making the workflow around worksets much, much better.

I'm under the gun of a bad deadline and man... I guess I just didn't notice until now how much faster working with worksets is in 8.1, both in the automated borrowing & in the save times... until every moment counted.

So thanks!

and... back to work!

[iru69]

Just wanted to take a moment and thank the Factory for making the workflow around worksets much, much better.

I've been meaning to post those same sentiments. Worksets in 8.1 are rad.

[ariasdelcid]

Great! I was checking archicad's TeamWork features and was kind of jealous of some things...having used worksets in 6.1. So great !!!!! Go Revit!

[Wes Macaulay]

Heh -- no more unchecking "Editable Only" either. Between that and being able to rotate around selected objects in 3D (how did we wrap wall sweeps around corners before now?) I figure I'm saving half an hour a day.

[hand471037]

Heh -- no more unchecking "Editable Only" either. Between that and being able to rotate around selected objects in 3D (how did we wrap wall sweeps around corners before now?) I figure I'm saving half an hour a day.

one day... one day, I can see myself telling people that 'back in my day, we had Revit 3.1, back when PHASING was the new hot thing, and we liked it! (my memory is getting dim... isn't that when Phasing was done? or was it Worksets in the first place?). We couldn't even format our own Color Fill Legends, but we didn't care! We instead made our own custom ones with matching colors, from scratch, in the Family Editor as annotation families, and we still liked it! (sadly, this last bit is true...)'

Oh wait... I say that now...But I sure do like this more!

(Uphill, in the snow, both ways... uh... Well, I did work in a place without heat, once, but being in California I don't know if that counts as much)

[Shaun v Rooyen]

I must also agree, worksets are a hell of alot better. No longer do I hear "please grant me a request" being bellowed across the office.

[Mr Spot]

love em, love em, love em...

[Shaun v Rooyen]

Hey! have you also noticed, the factory has cleaned up the backup folder, no longer do you have all those weird DIR's "0a1b2483-a203-46d9-af96-1a6bbfeed90b".

[Wes Macaulay]

Yup... it means less overhead for backup and operating systems. Good news...

[paul.licameli]

On behalf of the Worksharing team of Revit's development organization, I thank all of you for your appreciation of our efforts!

For 8.1, besides making the save-to-central part of workSHARING faster, we were also trying to deemphasize the use of workSETS.

We hoped to make the frequent, fine-grained editability control by means of element borrowing work fast, and automatically. Fast enough, we hope, so that you can rely on it for prevention of conflicting changes, without needing the infrequent, coarse grained control of workset checkouts (which may exclude too many people from doing too much, so that they "bellow" at you).

An editing permissions system is essential to Revit's worksharing to prevent simultaneous editing of one element by two users, but "worksets" are just a detail (and an optional, perhaps obsolescent one, now) in the use of that system. They shouldn't be a synonym for the larger worksharing system.

Experienced users like you may have the old terminology ingrained, but we hope to hear the new Revit users say, "Worksharing is easy!" and, "Worksets? What are they?"