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Revit Structure allows work team with the option to share a project or the use of models linked.
Share a project means you can simultaneously access a shared model through a central file, this function is used for several team members work in a single model, an RVT file.
By using linked models, systems and design elements are divided into individually managed models that can be linked together.
can be used in projects that contain separate buildings (eg a university campus) or to work together with people specializing in various disciplines, both architects and MEP engineers.
Methodology
- Select the project to share.
- Enable sharing Project: Upon activation, Revit creates the core file, which is the basis of project data, stored all changes, data from the sub-projects and owners of items.
Once you create the central file, team members should work on local copies.
- Create Sub: Enabling the sharing of projects are created by default several subprojects, two user-created sub-family and loaded into the project, standards and views.
- Start sharing Project: Team members can create a central copy of your hard disk or local network , to start sharing the spotlight.
sharing common tasks Project includes:
- Create a local copy center
- ; Open and edit the copy central core file
- Post Changes in the central file and get the latest changes in the file
- Work Offline or another location
Sharing Project Activation
- Open the project file Revit (RVT), which want to use Lapel central archive Collaborate / Work -> Worksets Panel / Sub-projects -> Worksets / Sub-projects .
- next window opens, which displays the sub-project set up levels and grids. You can change the name if desired. Accept the window.
- window display sub-projects, accept it.
- Select the Applications menu -> Save As à Project. Assign a name and location for the Central. Avoid using a decimal point in the name. This file must be stored on a network drive, to which all team members have access.
- In the dialog box Save As, select the Options button.
- Select Convert to Central after saving file if it is the first time you save the file, this option is selected by default and can not be changed.
The file is already the focus of the project file. Revit creates the file in the specified directory, and also creates a backup folder for the file, which contains also permits editing the core.
Revit_temp folder contains files that Worksharing Monitor provides information on the progress of various operations.
Sub-Project Settings
A sub-project is a set of elements. Only one user can edit a sub-project level, all members can see other team members, but can not make changes. This avoids potential conflicts within the project.
The dialog Worksets / Sub-Project contains the following information:
- Worksets Active / Active Sub-Projects: Indicates the sub-project to that adds new elements to incorporate. It may be a sub-project editable by the user, or it may belong to another team member.
- Inactive WorkSet Gray Graphics / Show graphics gray sub-projects inactive griz shows the elements in the drawing area not belonging to the sub-active project. Only affects the screen display, not printing.
- Name / Title: Indicate the name of the sub-project.
- Editable / Editable: Indicates the parameter a sub-project. You can not change the state, until the file is synchronized with the central.
- Owner / Owner: Indicate who is the owner. If the editable parameter indicates whether, or if you select this option, this user becomes the owner of the sub-project.
- Borrowers / Borrowers: Displays users who are using an item borrowed from the sub-project. There may be several.
- Opened / Open: Displays whether a sub-project is open (Yes) or closed (NO). They are visible only in the project, elements of sub-projects open.
- Show / Show: You can show and hide different types of sub-projects.
Loans elements and sub-projects: work is recommended on a local copy center, without making the sub-editable. If you edit an item that you are editing any other team member, it automatically becomes the borrower and can apply the changes you want.
is also recommended. Synchronize often the central file, because this way you give the items were borrowed.
With the sub-projects obtain other advantages:
- edition streamlines the task of
- ; Control visibility
Default Sub-projects Created by User: Revit creates 2 sub-projects:
- Levesls and Grids Shared / Shared Levels and Grids: Contains levels, grids and planes of reference.
- Workset1 / Subproyecto1: Contains all elements of the existing model. By creating sub-projects, you can assign to other sub-elements.
can change the name of the Sub-project, but not eliminated.
- Families / Families: Each family is assigned a charged individual sub-project. Can not delete sub-projects of families, or renamed.
- Views / Views: The sub-projects of view, contain properties from view and specific items such as dimensions or notes texts. By adding an element specific view is added automatically to the corresponding sub-project.
These sub-projects can never be active, but can be made editable to modify specific elements. If the sub-project associated with the view does not appear as editable, change the status to change it.
can not delete or rename a view Sub-projects.
- Projects Standards / Guidelines Project: Contains all the parameters defined for the project in general.
Comments
- Project Size: Generally, items that are edited together must be included in a single project.
- Functions: The structure of sub-projects, may reflect the division of labor.
- Visibility: Revit performance is better if you set certain sub-projects which are not visible by default.
- Groups and Families: All the elements of a group, are included in the sub-group draft copy. To edit the group, then the sub-project editable group rate. To edit the elements of a group, then the sub-editable copy of the group project.
Creating a local copy center recommend creating a local copy center every day, so make sure that there is always a local copy on the drive, every time begins to modify the project.
- Go to the Tools menu à Open / Open.
- Navigate to the folder where the central file and select
- ; sure that this enabled the Create New Local / Create New Local File.
If you select Unlink central file, you will deselect the Create new local file.
Creating a file copy from a central open
- Go to the Tools menu à Save As / Save As
- Access to the desired location, name the file and save.
Create Sub-Projects
- Open your local copy center
- Select the Collaborate tab / Work -> Worksets Panel / Sub-Projects -> Worksets / Sub-projects.
- Select New / New and name.
- If you want to display in all views open and new, select Visible by default in all views. You can change the visibility of sub-projects in visibility-Graphics / Visibility-Graph.
If you are configuring a shared file to your computer and want to assign ownership to each sub-projects, each user must open their own local copy center, select the sub-project and then select Yes in editable column.
- When you finish creating sub-projects, click on OK.
