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as an alternative, you would likely borrow only the book on beavers so that your fellow students
can access other animal books to complete their papers. You have become an element borrower, and
there can be many borrowers within each workset. of course, the teacher probably made a mistake
if she assigned two students to complete a report on the same animal. This mistake may also hold
true when your team is working in revit. The same model object cannot be edited simultaneously
by more than one person. after all, you probably shouldn’t be working on the same model area as
your teammate anyway, right?

The actual use of worksets can vary greatly from project to project. Quite frankly, creating
more worksets beyond the defaults is technically not necessary; however, you can use worksets
to take advantage of other benefits:
◆ ◆ Use worksets to control the visibility of groupings of building components, such as build-
ing skin, core, interior walls, and so on, without the need to use temporary view settings or
control visibility manually.
◆ ◆ Close worksets as needed to remove those parts of your project from active memory, thus
improving performance.
◆ ◆ Use workset ownership to prevent others from editing a part of the project you are cur-
rently designing.

enabling Worksharing on Your Project

The worksharing feature can be enabled in any Revit project file. You can commence
worksharing, create and remove worksets, or move elements between worksets during any stage
of the project.

Worksharing in the Project Process

When you choose to enable the worksharing feature, make sure the team is aware of the change
to the file and that it is planned within the project process.

To follow along with the text in this chapter, you can download the Jenkins Music Building
project file from this book’s companion website at www.sybex.com/go/masteringrevit2015.
One version of the project does not have worksets, while the other has retained worksets but is
not configured for worksharing. Open the file c05-Sample-Building_Start.rvt and switch to
the Collaborate tab in the ribbon. The worksharing tools are shown in Figure 5.2.

Figure 5.2
The Collaborate
tab

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