User Management Functionality
We need a way to ring-fence certain Revit tools and functionality so that new/inexperienced users can work within a large team without breaking things or disrupting project standards and team working.
Larger projects (20-30 concurrent Revit users) attract a major management and housekeeping overhead. We maintain a team of BIM coordinators embedded within the design team who, in addition to their design work, must spend a considerable amount of time on model maintenance tasks and firefighting.
Coming from a Microstation CAD environment, we were used to the luxury of 'Capability Control' where we could choose on a granular level what tools and configurations were available to different levels of users. For example, our coordinators could add new Layers, Text and Dim styles, Linestyles etc, but our average users couldn't. This was recognised as a major help in proactively dealing with team working issues, rather than having to spend many hours trying to fix the mess that can be generated where these controls are not available.
The ROI for us of something as simple as a control on who in the team can or cannot create new Levels could be immense.