Dropbox and Worksharing

[dannid]

I've gotten Worksharing to work on my PC but not my Laptop.  Are there any problems or work arounds?

This is on Dropbox.  I couldn't get it to work putting the local file on my computer, but for my PC when I put the local file on Dropbox it works.  But my laptop keeps saying the central model does not exist at the path provided.

[RSomppi]

It would work if you weren't using DropBox and were using BIM360.

[RDAOU]

DROPBOX is not for worksharing and collaboration

[dannid]

You must be getting paid for your answers.

[RSomppi]

If you had done the appropriate research about the requirements of working with Revit in cloud environment, you would have already known this.

Making unfounded accusations when someone tells you something you don't want to hear is not cool.

[RDAOU]

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@dannid wrote:

You must be getting paid for your answers.

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Remember that when your model get corrupt and un-recoverable  

PS: Are you using a legit copy of the software?

[dannid]

Seeing as you went straight to the most expensive solution and one that was not even requested seems pretty founded.

[dannid]

See that!  That would be an answer that an unpaid person would LEAD with.  Telling someone asking a specific question that an unrelated solution that costs oppressively more that that is the only solution, sounds like someone who gets their product for free or paid to operate it.

If you had to pay for it out of your own pocket, you'd probably be at least more empathetic.

[RDAOU]

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@dannid wrote:

See that!  That would be an answer that an unpaid person would LEAD with.  Telling someone asking a specific question that an unrelated solution that costs oppressively more that that is the only solution, sounds like someone who gets their product for free or paid to operate it.

If you had to pay for it out of your own pocket, you'd probably be at least more empathetic.

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@dannid 

Your question is actually irrelevant to this forum, this is Revit Architecture forum not Dropbox support. You should seek your Solution HERE ... and no one said there is an ONLY solution. Just dropbox is not one of them. If you ask me the same on Bentley's forum, the reply will also be the same 

As for your speculations, TRUE... I do not pay for it my employers do. Maybe you should try that option too.

Cheers and Good Luck

[RSomppi · Accepted solution]

BIM360 is the only supported option for cloud worksharing. Any other "solution" that might seem to work has inherent risks and is bound to fail. If you don't want to believe that, you are on your own.

Please note the number of answers that are offering solutions for using Dropbox. Have a look around here and any other place you choose for threads or tutorials created by people using Dropbox for workshared cloud projects. Post your question in another forum. If you could find another way to successfully do workshared cloud projects, it would be very helpful for many users. You can even post it here. Autodesk won't delete anything that's not an advertisement which is against forum rules.

[jvpantin2]

Interesting discussion. Certainly, the only official and approved worksharing & collaboration tool for Revit is BIM360, but not all are so wealthy to afford it, even as Revit itself. Its still an unanswered topic how Autodesk may would include small business and independent professionals in its market without force them to pay the same amount for licences as large enterprises. Don't tell me that Revit LT is the solution, specially when you have a small team struggling inside a shark's fishbowl advantaged by budgets and client's wallet to pay for software license, support and certifications. That's pretty unfair, taking in count that small-scale enterprise are the user majority of Revit; surely they don't represent the major market share of Autodesk, but surely too it's an important niche and use of software provide the main income of thousands of AEC workers and their families around the world. So it's so easy to claim for legal use of the software if you are one of the big ones, small fishes to be fried...

Believe it or not, mentioned WS option works, with all of obvious inherent risks and tipycal issues of cloud storage and misuse, as any OOTB solution. A little hint: keep the same route of shared folder in all devices.

[dannid]

How is figuring out how to workshare irrelevant to this forum?  It's a question on how to use a feature of Revit that most everybody uses, except in a small business application.  

So you just have everything handed to you on a silver platter.  Good for you.  Wait until you have to afford all these outrageously priced solutions for your company.  Or are you just going to be a BIM monkey for the rest of your existence.

[RDAOU]

@dannid 

No comment...but if you believe Autodesk Rates are outrageously expensive then apparently you haven't been in the business for long. Check the pricing from Autodesk competitors for equivalent packages, Graphisoft, GT Digital Projects, Nemetcheck and Bentley as well as others. You will find out that the prices of Autodesk are on the lower margin in terms of cost and on the upper range in terms of Value for money. This is not an advertisement this is a fact. No one is against alternatives and I believe that includes Autodesk. They even have an article on the basic requirement you need to consider if you want to set up your own workshare environment! 

As previously stated, it is not about using or not using an alternative. It is about Dropbox which is neither CAD aware nor a suitable solution for Collaboration/Worksharing/Live sync. Apart from that, it is all about the support you get and the safety of your Data as well as others'. When you are worksharing and collaborating with others it is not just about you (and this has nothing to do with being a small fish or a shark). When the **** hits the fan, it will cost you and those you are working with 100x the cost of a BIM360 access.

[mariaa.fernandezGZDL2]

I'm new to the worksharing and considering setting it up for our firm. We use dropbox as cloud and are a small business. If we decide to do BIM 360 and pay a subscription, is the cost per user?  and Do we also need a subscription to BIM Colaborate Pro? I'm jus trying to evaluate the inicial cost and amount of licenses we will need. 

Thanks

[RSomppi]

You don't need BIM 360 for worksharing within your office as long as you have a network.

[jvpantin2]

BIM360 Design is now BIM Collaborate PRO, the specific package for worksharing and collaborative models (not DOCS neither COLLABORATE wich don't have this functionality), all of them belongs to ACC. Prices published in web page are for a single user/subcription.