nmines473360
2011-06-15, 08:09 PM
Hello I am an Electrical Designer working on several projects with another company that is responsible for the HVAC and Structural design. I am wondering if there is a better way to share models back and forth with them. They are located across town from us.
First I tried to simply connect to their server through VPN and link their model as an overlay in my own seperate model. That took 30-60 minutes to load each morning and if REVIT crashed (which it loves to do) it would take another 30-60 minutes sometimes several times a day. This wasn't going to work.
Currently I VPN in to their server, and created a batch file that uses Robocopy to get the models I need off their server and copy them to the repective folders on our server. I use task scheduler to run the batch file every morning at 4am (when it's likely that everyone has saved their work and gone home). This works ok. To a point. This still doesn't give me acess to the equipment in their models for circuiting, and I'm about to find out what happens when they use phases for their projects (I'm guessing I'll have a cluttered mess of for demo equipment mixed with for construction equip and have to try and sort through it myself)
The question I have is: is it possible to use worksets and phases over ethernet without taking 45 minutes to load, save and relenquish changes, and otherwise slow both networks to a crawl.
Please help. Sorry for long winded post.
Nathan Mines, EIT
First I tried to simply connect to their server through VPN and link their model as an overlay in my own seperate model. That took 30-60 minutes to load each morning and if REVIT crashed (which it loves to do) it would take another 30-60 minutes sometimes several times a day. This wasn't going to work.
Currently I VPN in to their server, and created a batch file that uses Robocopy to get the models I need off their server and copy them to the repective folders on our server. I use task scheduler to run the batch file every morning at 4am (when it's likely that everyone has saved their work and gone home). This works ok. To a point. This still doesn't give me acess to the equipment in their models for circuiting, and I'm about to find out what happens when they use phases for their projects (I'm guessing I'll have a cluttered mess of for demo equipment mixed with for construction equip and have to try and sort through it myself)
The question I have is: is it possible to use worksets and phases over ethernet without taking 45 minutes to load, save and relenquish changes, and otherwise slow both networks to a crawl.
Please help. Sorry for long winded post.
Nathan Mines, EIT