WORKSHARING BASICS: Creating Central and Local files 

Wow, that's really great so easy to understand through your content, keep it up buddy

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I've been working in revit solo for years and now a new person is coming on board. This is exactly what I need to know thank you

Amazing Video Mike! Very clear! Thanks.

Thank you so much for great explanation and the way you teach it to us. I never forget it anymore.

as always GREAT explanation ! good to refreshed my memory. keep making this kind of video's Mike 👍👍 all best !

Thank you friend, clear as cristal, understood very well 🤗

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Many thanks for the excellent explanation and your wonderful teaching approach. I'm truly grateful and won't forget it anymore.

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It's really helpful to understand the easy way.

Very informative and your way of teaching is very nice.

Thank you very much, sir. Very well put.

Very well said !

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Thnks mike for valuable content

now i know central file vs local file ,thank you sir

keep it up you are pro dear teacher

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Very nice way of explaining. Thanks😂

what a wonderful video for a beginner like me, thanks mike, just one doubt, why to create a new local everyday and overwrite the previous one when you can work on yesterday's local by synchronizing it and then start working

Thankyou sir

I love your work so much Mike, I am your super fan. Super didactic. The only comment I have is at minute 23:52, you say "...super save..." Question: Is it possible that the first save is for safety, then sync, and the second save is for you to get any sync work from others, they may have done? Thank you.

Great content once again! Just to further question backup copies, you stated not to sync multiple times a day as a single user. Now what happens if I am working in a team of x and each member sinks at days end, would we not have over ridden the central sync x amount of times? Or does each individual members sync stay within a special member only section of the project save directory. A personal sync history if you will. Cheers, Christian

Awesome stuff. I am yet to do any Worksharing, but this will be a great help in the future. Thank you. Sorry, I added a comment earlier today with a link and it looks like it got removed due to that link (the link was to a pdf of a couple of sheets showing graphical door and window schedules I recently did for an assignment). Do you have any tips and tricks for creating window and door schedules (the ones that have pictures of the windows and doors used in the project with a table under each showing window & door numbers, material, framing type etc)? For the assignment I made a bunch of shared parameters then added those to the window and door families and filled out the parameter info for each window or door instance. Then I created a table with labels as an annotation family and linked the labels to the shared parameters I made earlier and then, for each window/door I placed the table underneath and filled out the details. Seemed to work ok but was a fairly manual process. I think that was sort of what I did, it was a couple of weeks ago now. Would you happen to know some nifty tricks to make it more automated or just better? Many thanks Mike George

🙏 great video! My friend and I are trying to work on a project so we created the central file on her computer and I’m not sure how to open a local copy on mine. She sent me the central file but I’m having issues synching it and I’m not sure how else I’m supposed make a local copy. Is there maybe a certain place I’m supposed to save it on my computer?

man that was a lot of info i did not know... no wonder i have new folders i idi not create !!!

Hello, Loved the video. I have one question. Is there a way to show the sample value instead of the ? in box? For example in a list of consultant you want to add their information but under what question mark do you add what. So thats why I want to show the sample value so that if someone else is filling in the information they know what to type in.?

Mike, why is my Sync button is RED. Like that thunder bolt thing in there, is red. is it because I hit sync first and then relinquish all mine? I followed all your steps after that, but my Sync button is still red. Why is that?

hi, glad to learna lotof detail from your video, So, im having issues about worksharing on Revit (mine is v2020,2021), few days ago ive made a central file (with v2020) on a local network (LAN) within central file was at my local drive setup as shared folder and mapped it as \\PC\Central\file.rvt, and everything was fine, everyone work as local file, synch etc.. but unfortunately, yesterday i tried the same way to create a cental file using v2021, again i made cental within my local drive folder and mapped it as shared (read/write to everyone) but others just cant open it as a local file, the "create new local file" check box was greyed ouy, revit said it was moved or copied to another loc... what does it mean?? i really appreciate if u could help this out, many thanks

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Great video. we are facing some more issues while work sharing with others of the same project . always asking to "re save" other user name for editing . if 4 persons are working one project, this issues are facing frequently . how to solve this issue. Work set kept as (non editable). Request you to upload a continuation of this Video for Part-2

Quick question, why do I need to create a new local file everyday and not work on the same local file that I synced and saved the other day? Is there any difference between the two?

Great Video. but I am bothered about the "getting back to work" 29:54.... Why will you need to "create new local file from central file and overwrite the local file"??? is this means you cannot use the local file "mikesgreatbldg with your name" and just save & synchronize it again. thanksss

Can we do Dropbox central? Friggin my man!!!

Hye. i understand the situation to do it.but i got some problem. in my situation i'm the one doing the central file. i'done doing it inside the company server. if i want to make any changes to the model. i knew to open the file & always see the the small box to check/tick to make a new COPY of New local file..but if the other modeller want to open the file on their own pc & make changes on the file which i put it in our server.the other person will se the checkbox for Create new Local is grayed out. so any changes the person made will not appear in our central file. this is the problem & i cant fine solution on it.

What would happen if the person that created the central file is in another country, I mean how would I access to that file? Should that person locates it in a platform like Drive o Dropbox? And should I do download it to my PC and just start to work on it?

Do you have to be in the same network to collaborate?

CAN THE CENTRAL FILE BE SAVED IN THE GOOGLE OR ONE DRIVE?

we have 12 drafters in one office working on a same project. THAT REALLY should be on Autodesk Construction Cloud. YET< for some ODD reason, its VERY difficult to find a Clean, Clear Comprehensive walk trough, ON Create that NEW folder in the ACC Then, set the Central file to BIM share.. then window pops up.. and folders to chose from.. But, ohh wait, there are NO folders for Current projects, EVEN though I'm admin, and Account Admin. AND I set up a new Project in ACC YET, I do not have a destination to send my .rvt as cloud shared Central. I hope that made sense.

can I just save the local file to a different name to get rid workshare function? or is there other better way

Can you change your picture size to half this size please

can you make your photo half size please?

Where are the exact duplicate copies saved ??

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super sir.too god

Wish I wouldve seen your videos in 2022. I would have not gotten fired back than. Oh well.

No server here. Just me so no work sharing is possible.