Process Question for Starting Revit Projects with Construction Cloud

Process Question for Starting Revit Projects with Construction Cloud

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Process Question for Starting Revit Projects with Construction Cloud

rjohnstonBK2JP
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I'm running through some possibilities here and I'd like some feedback over something that everyone deals with. I'm a BIM Manager at a firm of about 100 people. I start roughly 3 projects a week on average and I usually do it through a template file. Works great on my end because it's simple and I'd like to maintain the simplicity as much as possible.

 

On the other hand, I'm probably going to start using a Revit project (.rvt file) to start my projects as opposed to the Revit template file (.rte). This is mainly so I can control the establishment and naming of worksets upfront as well as linking models together from the start.

 

We primarily use the construction cloud for our collaboration and I was wondering if there are any tips or advice that you could give me when going down this path. My concern is that I'll have to upload every single Revit project to the cloud one by one. When I'm managing models for 7 different disciplines (schematic planning, architecture, structural, mech, plumb, elec, int design), I don't want to spend a ton of time uploading all 7 different models to the cloud every time I create a new project. This seems very inefficient.

 

Any workarounds for avoiding this?

 

Any help or input is appreciated! Thanks

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RPTHOMAS108
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Not sure if this is an Revit API question, most people here are developers rather than BIM practitioners. So there may be better advice in the product forums e.g. Revit Architecture in particular (in terms of what others are doing).

Whilst technical solutions to the upload issue may come from BIM 360 API Forum perhaps.

 

RevitAPI has methods for working with cloud models such as

Document.SaveAsCloudModel 

Application.OpenDocumentFile(ModelPath, OpenOptions, IOpenFromCloudCallback)

 

So as I see it the 7xUpload process you speak of can definitely be automated by the Revit API to some degree. 

 

 

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