Worksharing in Revit and Central Files 

What a legend of a video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Clear and to the point, best I have seen on the subject. Thank you

This is by far the best video for describing work-sharing in Revit with all in and out. Thank you for filling in some memory gaps I had when working on work-sharing.

This video is so so clarifying! I'm not a beginner in Revit but your tutorials gives me an order in my revit mind:)

Great video! Very informative and to the point. Its amazing that you are sharing all of this for us fresh starters 🤓

I wish more BIM tutorials had cats mewing in the background

He did a very good job imo. Explaining the basics step by step. English is not my first language and I have no experience in using DAWs

Thank you for a sensational and methodical review!

great video, much needed info well summarized

Although you are super fast and I had to slowdown the video :) , but that was precious video typical of yours God bless you man!

Thanks for a good video.

Thank you

Really you done good job bro

I know this video is now a few years old, but it was mentioned that you may make a video in the future about bim 360 and worksets/collaboration? I didn't see an old video, maybe I missed it? I guess bim360 is now ABC pro (autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro)...they keep changing the names. I am going to be starting my first work set project and we are going straight into ABC pro (no local worksharing, all remote work), this video was really helpful.

Great video, thank you for this. In a classroom setting I have students working together in a central model on a very simple project. I am not sure if we really need to take advantage of worksets or just leave workset1 in their by default. Basically they are creating a set of CD's for the installation of residential appliances (just getting them use to writing notes and such). Do we need to fret about getting worksets set up for such a simple thing?

Hi, thank you for your video . I work at a company where we are just a few people. I am trying to set up worksharing environment to improve our workflow when working two or more people on the same project. The problem I found recently, is that, for some reason, a local file is saved somewhere else, out of my local folder, which it's creating a mess, duplicating local files. I have to be careful when I see this problem and look for the date and time of the most recent file. This is making me asking to myself, if, for a small company with just two or three employees, where we work on the same project, but not on daily basis, the worksharing environment is the proper workflow. We are ending having a lot of backups, and our server can be esily cluttered with a lot of files. It's there any other option?. When worksharing is good for workflow improvement, and when is it not good? I guess, the answer is it depends, but I would like your feedback on that. All our Revit files and projects are stored on a Server and accessed through the Network., so, they are not in the local computers, and everybody in the company can access the project files through the network. Thank you

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

Hi BIM Guru, Thanks for sharing. I wonder if it is necessary to set up a Revit Server instead of use Worksharing for design collaboration for my firm's situation, most of the scenarios we just collaborate within our LAN, sometimes we will need to collaborate with colleagues from other city. If we use Revit Server to all of these projects, what's the downside? Thank you!

I am a student and I have a very heavy project which is causing me issues and errors, I am trying to implement worksets but I wonder if using links would make easier to handle, or well, just worksets

I never use worksharing or worksets (I work at a small company) but sometimes I receive a model from a third party that does. I always detach it from central to make it work for me as a single user. Today I got a model with a lot of worksets, and it had a lot of in-place geometry in it but for some reason the nested cut voids seem to be absent when I tried to edit the geometry to see how they’ve modelled it. Normally the cut geometry is orange in a nested in-place family but here it was totally absent but still it must be there somehow, but it didn’t show up in the session but it’s still affected by something that cuts it. Is it possibly that this can be hidden on some obscure workset? I have never encountered this behaviour before eventhough I use a lot of in-place modelling myself to create complex shapes. It is a model of a bridge, so in-place stuff is kind of required here. I’m just not used to all that workset jazz. My employer only has two people that work with Revit and we work on our own projects so everything is always a local model for us. It seems that larger companies do “weird” things with their models.

Hi BIM Guru, If we need to need to work in a Workshare environment in MEP Project What would I need to do first ??? Should I link the ARCHITECTURE model first, create levels and then make it a central file ??? I have created the Architecture model as a central model but when I link it into Revit it says that both the central model and link file are the same so you cant link it . Kindly tell steps to start working in MEP project in a workshare environment.

hi. I really still don't know how to share my project what to do after I create a central file how will my friends get it and be able to work on it

if create a new local is not available why is that ? thank you so much !

Restore/ rollback is when some people start throwing dynamo graphs they don’t understand.

Hi Gavin! I have seen a tutorial created central file like this: 1. Architecture Model 1.1. Block 1 (Central file) 1.1.1. Basement 1.1.2. Podium 1.1.3. Tower 1 1.1.4. Tower 2 1.2. Fence and Gate 1.3. Auxiliary Construction 2. Structure Model 3. MEP Model Is that the right way? Thank you so much.

am getting soft from your video, thx alot. how do i make my soft more than 50sec long? I clicked loop recording, pressed the record

I want to make central model for other users what should i use BIM 360 Docs or BIM 360 Design, and Fusion 360 also can use instead of BIM 360?. I need to prepare for my Group Presentation for my Coordination Class. Please kindly answer. Thanks

correct me : I COPY THE CENTRAL FILE AND PUT IT IN A DIFFERENT SYSTEM(same folder documents) AND follow create a local copy.. but its showing the error shearing violation , file not saved

So what if we live in different homes how can we work together

here a silly question, i made a central model in bim collab pro. how do i go about making a local file from that model? so me and my coworkers are not altering the central one in bim collab.

What if the Central files was done in Architectural Template and I want to open a local file in MEP template, is it possible?

What cloud-based server you use to store ur central file ?

Over speed

you too fast when you describe something on revit....please i have request you to describe slowly & describe each and any function of revit