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Best Practice for Sharing

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Anonymous
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Best Practice for Sharing

Completely new to Revit and I'm wondering if there is a "best practices " approach for sharing a central model with design subs. 

Our company will be drawing the architectural model including the site and we will have MEP and structural done by different companies. 

In our company we have one full version of Revit and 2 LT versions. Our files are stored on Google Drive and each design team member has a free account on A360. I just learned that collaboration is not available on LT and therefor getting a subscription to A 360 team will not really do us any good. At this point I'm not sure what the situation with the subs is, but my assumption is that each one at least has a full version of Revit.

I would appreciate any suggestions you could give as to how best go about sharing the central model without drafters making changes to separate model files simultaneously.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Chris

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Alfredo_Medina
als Antwort auf: Anonymous

Welcome to the forum.

 

The ideal solution would be to update your two LT versions into full Revit, and have all three users connected to A360, and use A360 to publish and downloading. You publish your models, they download your model and link; they publish their models, you download their models and link. Once a week, all models are published again and the process is repeated... 


Alfredo Medina _________________________________________________________________ ______
Licensed Architect (Florida) | Freelance Instructor | Profile on Linkedin
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Anonymous
als Antwort auf: Alfredo_Medina

Alfredo,

 

thank you for your response. Unfortunately, the "ideal solution" involves having to spend more money by upgrading the LT versions and then subscribing to A360. We are a very young firm still and this is our first endeavor in the world of Revit. We would like to avoid having to spend all this money for our first project. I have read that a lot of people actually use linking as a solution, which will have all the design subs link their work to the model. That would allow everyone independently and when you save the central model in the cloud, everyone would be able to download the latest version if changes were made.

Does that sound like a feasible solution or are there other ways to go about it? 

 

Thanks for your input!

 

Chris

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Alfredo_Medina
als Antwort auf: Anonymous

Yes, uploading, downloading, and linking is a feasible option. The only difference is that the model in the cloud is always a little behind with the model in your local computers, until the next upload, as opposed to A360 where the model in the cloud is the same and only working model.

 

For your internal work, the LT users represent a disadvantage in productivity, because they cannot collaborate simultaneously, directly, into your model; therefore, you or they will need to do other workarounds to add the content they produce into the central model, maybe copying and pasting elements or creating additional links. What is more expensive? Upgrading to full Revit these two users or keeping these two users out of the central model all the time? I don't know. You would need to do some math to estimate that. I think there is a monthly subscription plan that offers an alternative solution, without going into high costs. 


Alfredo Medina _________________________________________________________________ ______
Licensed Architect (Florida) | Freelance Instructor | Profile on Linkedin
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ToanDN
als Antwort auf: Alfredo_Medina

I don't use A360 so I can't speak for it.

 

For my personal freelancing work, I create a Google Drive folder (or any other clouds such as Dropbox, OneDrive, Amazon Drive, Box...) and shared it to other consultants and clients.  I work and save the files directly to the cloud because my projects are not that big but I can choose to work on my local HDD and upload if need be.  Other parties will get an auto-email notice when I update the files and they can download and re-link to their file.  They do not work on my file and I do not work on theirs.

 

I still use the free cloud services but there are some limitations to the file size you can upload (100 MB I think).  So, if your projects are larger you will have to pay to upgrade.

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Anonymous
als Antwort auf: ToanDN

Toan And Alfredo,

 

thank you again for your suggestions. I think for now we will go with the linking option and parking the model on Google Drive. 

Alfred, you have a valid point about productivity and the cost of the full Revit version. We are already seeing some limitations in LT that we need to overcome and we may not have a choice but to upgrade at least one LT version to the full version. So I'm pretty sure that eventually we will end up with the collaboration method.

If anyone has any other suggestions that may be helpful, please feel free to share. To us the sharing/collaboration was quite hard to understand and figure out, so hopefully this can help others to make a decision on what is best for them.

 

Cheers,

 

Chris

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steve
als Antwort auf: Alfredo_Medina

I am doing something similar but different:   

 

We have r2017 + a360 + C4R and I am collaborating successfully with outside MEP and Structural consultants using CR4 and their models are linked using the collaborate / manage cloud  models feature in C4R.   (our first project - still a it hazy about best practices for walking that thru, lots of bim vendor time required to iron out the bugs).    I want to also use other architects outside of my office to do portions of the work.   I have 2 architect/consultants who have done this for other firms, but they do not know specifically what their clients are doing to "link" their models in...

 

Both Revit architect consultants I talked to said that their client-firms that hire them (let’s call that the FIRM), send them a Revit model (including r2017) which they -the consultant, use (a workset maybe???) that they are given permission to use by the FIRM, then the FIRM "brings in" or "links" the work they did on the shared r2017 file, not just drafting views.   Neither of the consultants know what exactly their FIRMS were doing, electronically, to make that happen, the "linking"


You seem to have a solution:   MY QUESTION:  could you be specific as to the steps of this "linking": [1] i share them a copy of the model... then what is the consultant doing, and what is the FIRM (us) doing with that model when we get it back?  

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