TABLE OF CONTENTS Most projects involve more than one person working at any given time. It s not uncommon for many people to work together to meet deadlines and crank out a set of construction documents. Keeping with the theme of an integrated single-file building model, Revit allows for this workflow without breaking apart the model. A complex model can be edited by many people at once using what is called worksharing.
Linked file-sharing methodology is best applied to campus-scale projects where independent buildings are being designed for a large site. All team members work on separate files for each of the buildings, and the files are linked into a master site plan to produce a final project.
In this chapter, we ll focus on enabling the worksharing feature of Revit.
In this chapter, you ll learn to do the following:
Set up a project with worksets
Move elements between worksets
Create a central file and local files
Save to and load from the central file
Request permission to use elements owned by other team members and grant others permission to use your elements
We first need to discuss some core concepts about worksharing before we can discuss how to implement it. Worksharing in Revit refers to the use of worksets to divide up the model for the purpose of sharing data between many people. A workset is a collection of building elements and components (floors, roofs, walls, windows, and so on)...
