Working on the Revit Model on a Network

[tmomeyer]

Hi,

We're evaluating Revit with an eye to converting the office. In a demo, they said that one method for a team to work on the Revit model is to make a copy of the model on the local drive and that as you work, elements edited or added will be saved back to the model stored on the network and collision detecting is automated for others working in a similiar manner.

Can someone explain this in more detail, or offer other methods for working on the model that is stored on the network? They emphasized not to work on it directly.

Thanks!

[Andrew Dobson]

This is through a feature called worksets.

I would recommend that you download the free Revit trial from http://www.autodesk.com/revit and look at project sharing under "Using advanced features" on the tutorials section of the help menu.

[ejburrell67787]

Yep worksets are great - you can have a single copy on the network and then each team member has a local copy of the file and "save to central" regularly to update the central (network) file. Great for a whole team working on the same co-ordinated file. Makes saving fast also - as it is primarily local, and the save to central function is now very fast we find also. :beer:

[Baldwin_4-6-0]

You just have to play with it to understand it fully.

Go to your help menu and type in Creating Worksets, and have at it.

Workset/worksharing is great, has has only gotten better over the years. Our firm has about 15 Architectural Revit users and we've been using Workset/worksharing this since
2003.