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Chapter 5

Working in a Team

Most projects involve more than one person working together at any given time. It’s
common in design for many people to work collaboratively to meet deadlines and create a
set of construction documents. Autodesk Revit Architecture software has tools that
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allow for a collaborative design and documentation process while giving multiple people
simultaneous access to its single-file building model. This unique functionality is known as
worksharing.
In this chapter, you’ll learn to:

◆ ◆◆ Understand key worksharing concepts
◆ ◆◆ Enable worksharing on your project
◆ ◆◆ Organize worksets in your model
◆ ◆◆ Manage workflow with worksharing

◆ ◆◆ Understand element ownership in worksets
◆ ◆◆ Collaborate in the cloud

Certification Understanding Worksharing Basics
Objective
Worksharing refers to the use of worksets to divide a model for the purpose of sharing project
work among multiple people. A workset is a customizable collection of building elements
that can be used to manage project responsibilities. By associating various building elements
with worksets, the design team has additional control over visibility and element ownership,
and several people can collaborate and work within the same file. By default, worksharing
is not enabled when you start a project because it is assumed you are in a single-user
environment.
Worksharing is commenced when worksets are enabled and a project file is saved as a central
file located on a network drive. This central file becomes the repository where all the design
team’s work is saved. Each team member then creates a local copy of the central file on their
workstation in which they will work as usual. The local copies of the model remain connected to
the central file (Figure 5.1).

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