Is there any way of finding out if somebody has gained access to my model ?

[100268310]

 I believe a set of students from my university are playing around with my model.  The person that came to try and help said that who ever created the model first should be the one to control editing requests but the also clicked alot of buttons in the project browser before hand and was talking a lot. I did not want this persons help but because they heard me asking somebody else for assistant they offered and made it look like i would be stupid or rude if I turned her down. There are 4 very advanced Revit users in the computer room on the university network and at some stage today it said that I could not save my work because somebody else had it open in use. I feel like they are all working together. I am in final year of university and these students around me are all masters students. They all come from Iran and are speaking Persian with one another frequently and laughing. I am UK born but from Caribbean descent and I am about to lose it because I know that somebody is playing around but I just don't know how to prove it!!!!!!!

Can someone suggest something I can do to gain back the control in this situation. I use Revit as a student account. Is there any way I can back track or do some checks to protect myself?

[mhiserZFHXS]

I'm not sure why you felt the need to bring up ethnicity. Doesn't seem relevant to the issue at all. 

There is no native way in Revit to protect files. Its been discussed quite a bit, as some people try to make a living on building families and templates and want to protect their IP. You can check who has made previous saves in Windows by right clicking on the file and looking at properties. 

Can you not save your work to a flash drive? Or to a cloud system? I wouldn't save work to a public location like that even if I weren't having issues. 

[100268310]

When you are a native English speaker and a community of others that all speak another language are speaking amongst themselves very loud and running around from desk to desk speaking in a the foreign language and sniggering I would have thought that if there was nothing to hide the conversation would be held in English as we are in the UK? Furthermore most of the communication amongst them is usually in English. Mentioning the ethnicity was for context. 

Last week my university One drive was removed and a new one created.

I know that my university account is very compromised and I have reported this to the IT support at the uni and they only jsut say change the paswwords I change my passwords but it never works out for long the people find out as soon as I log back on with the new passsword

I had my university email blocked as the the system picked up phishing attacks back in March.

This week I have come back and the one drive is back but not all my files are there. I have been emailing my work to myself to have backup files as recently my hard drive broke and I have yet to replace it but saving my work to a flash drive yet still does not resolve this issue.

Today right in front of my face the level 0 plan view of my in place model just disappeared in from of my eyes and then some of the other levels started disappearing. The model I'm making is drawn by model in place with many horizontal reference planes on the West elevation. For weeks I have been trying to make progress with this model but each time I come back to the model some settings have been tamped with and it sets me back. 

Definitely some other users are in my model at the same time as me and are playing around. 

does anybody know anything about the editing requests?

If it is my model shouldn't I be the one that can control that function via the screen shot?

 

[RSomppi]

I hesitate to respond because there seems to be multiple (non-Revit) issues going on here. I won't comment on the human interactions.

That button is only active when someone is requesting or you are requesting that you or someone else relinquish an element or elements in the central model.

If you are worried about people messing with your work, make your project a non-central model, lock the file when you are not editing it, and ALWAYS make copies when you are going to be out of it for any length of time.

[jay_colcombe]

The only method I am aware of in Revit directly is the Show History Tool on the Collaborate Tab

[ism_rahmouni]

as columb mention open revit and go to collaborate------>show history you can see who synced and when 

[mhiserZFHXS]

Again, ethnicity has nothing to do with this. The fact that you're fixating on that makes me hesitant to help you. If people are being jerks, they're being jerks. How they look or the language they're speaking has nothing to do with it. If you're as flippant about these things when you go to your IT support, I'm not surprised that they don't provide much help. So just as a bit of advice, don't bring up race or ethnicity in places when it has no relevance. 

There is no way in Revit for a plan view to "disappear in front of your eyes". Even if you were worksharing, which it doesn't look like you are in that screenshot, those updates only happen when the model is synced. So did you reload your model when that happened, or did it literally just happen in front of you when you weren't doing anything else?

As mentioned, the Show History button can show if another user has made changes, and when. I have another theory, but lets see if that shows anything first. 

[Simon_Weel]

It all sounds a bit strange. Anyway, your project isn't work-shared, as the greyed out buttons show.

So this is a regular, non-work shared file. If someone else opened the file  and then you try to open the file, you should be notified:

[Mike.FORM]

As @jay_colcombe and @ism_rahmouni said, when you click "show history" it will bring up an open dialogue which you will use to navigate to where you model is saved and open it. This will bring up a list like this showing every user that has opened that model and saved it (central model or not).

[RSomppi]

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@Simon_Weel wrote:

your project isn't work-shared, as the greyed out buttons show.

So this is a regular, non-work shared file.

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Good catch. This statement and question by the OP led me to think it was:

"Definitely some other users are in my model at the same time as me and are playing around. 

does anybody know anything about the editing requests?"

It seems there is a lot about Revit that the OP doesn't understand. Their problems may be self-inflicted.

[TripleM-Dev.net]

"Today right in front of my face the level 0 plan view of my in place model just disappeared"

This part leads me to think that maybe you're moving a level with disjoin option on?, this would delete all associated plan views of that level.

As mentioned in one of the reactions, the model doesn't seem to be workshared (no workset and editing req. greyed out), so only 1 person can edit the model and save it.

Further, model-in-place should only be used as minimal as possible.

Depending what's being modelled, use system families (walls, Floors, Roofs etc) to construct it, or create a family or maybe massing for full-freeform.

This way the reference planes are in a family and wil only interact with that geometry, so editing other elements in the project you won't accidentally delete something that's referenced to that element.