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Warn when working in the wrong workset.

It would be really helpful if we could get the following warnings:

 

When copying an item, if the workset of the new item is different than the old.  This is usually a mistake

 

If the item you just placed is invisible, and that is because the workset you're currently on is turned off in this view, then Revit should warn you directly about that:  "The workset you are on is not visible in this view", rather than the generic something is wrong warning.

 

Ideally Revit would know which worksets everything should be in.   If you place a light in a power workset, or a pipe in a ductwork workset, Revit should know. To do that Revit would have to add something to each workset like "default workset for conduits", etc.  This is a big ask I think.

 

More generally, there seems to be some trepidation on the use of worksets.  Please share your feelings on that.  

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Anonymous

Or more simply, they should add a checkbox, probably on the ribbon, saying "Preserve Workset" (similar to "Mirror" offering to duplicate, or simply to mirror the original).  I would also say this checkbox would be on by default, since (for us at least) we want to keep the workset as it was.  To me, this is like AutoCAD changing a copied element to the current work layer every time instead of the more logical method it uses -- preserving the layer.

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Advocate

Hi @gseilerA6YML ,

warnings are one option, but why not simply let Revit switch to the correct workset automatically? This is what our little tool does! We not only support worksets by categories but also by families and types, giving you great flexibility in your workflows.

 

Have a look here and let me know what you think!

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=6384070377181495514&appLang=en&os=Win64

 

(disclaimer: I'm the developer and I'm more than happy to make further improvements to this!)