Originally Posted by
ykang
Please advise us if we are going to a right direction. Below is what we have distributed to employees.
The most important use of workset is to prioritize which element of the drawing gets to be saved into the central file.(besides increasing your speed by turning them off)
Basically same concept as Autocad sharing. When someone has the file open you do not have access to it until that person finishes the drawing.
Therefore in Revit, when the project is divided into X number of worksets, you can look at that as it has the same X number of Xref within that drawing.
In Autocad, when you want to edit an element in an Xref, you do have to go to the xref and then edit it. In Revit, you either have to,
1. to go to workset window and click ¡°YES¡± for owning the entire workset, in this case, this is same as opening the xref where no others can change until you save,
2. borrow the element of the workset.
Borrowing the element is the new concept to Autocad Users. When you borrow the element, you have a risk of losing your element if the other person happens to borrow an element from the same workset that you have borrowed. Let¡¯s say there are 1st borrower and 2nd borrower of a workset. If 1st borrower made 15 percent changes of the workset and 2nd person made 86 percent of the changes and only 1 percent change is overlapping by both users, 2nd borrower of the workset will not be able to save and will lose all of the work. This case, 1st borrower will have previlege to save to central.
Per Revit Book, they say it is the best practice to own the workset so that you can prevent others from losing what they have borrowed.(as above case indicates)
Lastly, when you borrow an element from an workset that no one happens to own, you actually have to go around and ask the person to relinquish and save whereas when someone owns the workset and you are borrowing an element, Revit pops up an window to grant/not grant a person to borrow.