Looking for correct workflow to download our published model from BIM360

Looking for correct workflow to download our published model from BIM360

andy.steyn
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Looking for correct workflow to download our published model from BIM360

andy.steyn
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Hi, 

 

We are using Revit 2023 (project specific) and have a single workshared model on BIM360 with multiple users accessing. I want to download our published model, without links and stripped of all our 2d sheets and just with default views, for upload to the project CDE. 

 

What I have been doing is:

Ctrl D to home page, browse the file via Autodesk Docs, and publish without links. 

Then access BIM360 via Chrome, browse the file, and once it have synced use "download source file" 

 

I was under the impression that this is the published file, but once opened we can see that all sheets and views. so I think its downloading the live workshared file. Am I correct in this guess?

 

What is the correct workflow to get a stripped out published model? ALSO - is there an addon that does this straight from Revit for you? 

 

Thanks for your help. 

 

Cheers

Andy

 

 

 

 

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jay_colcombe
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As i understand Revit will Publish all 3D and 2D View, you can control this via the Publish Settings on the Collaborate Tab > Manage Models > Publish Settings

 

Help | Select Views and Sheets to Publish to the Cloud | Autodesk

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Alfredo_Medina
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If you want a model that does not have links, has just a few views, and no sheets, that is a different version of your model that you need to create, something that cannot be done by publishing. The option to "publish without links" publishes your model only, but that does not mean that the published model will be stripped of links. It just means that the latest version of all the linked models won't be published to BIM360.

 

To get what you want, from your model, do Save as... with a different name, and save to a folder in your computer. Then go to Manage Links and do either Unload or Remove all links. Then go to the project browser and remove sheets.

 

If you choose Remove, just be aware that whoever is using that file in the future will have to go through the process of linking and relocating all other disciplines again if they need to see that information.

 

As another option, you can choose not to do anything about links in this new copy of the model. The links will be broken anyway when somebody opens the file because this new model is not in the cloud. But the references will remain in case somebody wants to put together all the disciplines again without going through the trouble of re-linking files at the correct location.

 

If this is for archiving in your local folders, what I do is this: From BIM 360 or from Revit's home page: Publish Latest. Then I go to BIM 360, select my architectural model and download. That gives me a .zip file with my architectural model plus all the other models. Then I extract all files and put them in an Archive folder of the project. 


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andy.steyn
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Cheers, so it looks like a 'Save As' is the only option. 

 

On a side note I was recommended this Addon by trade contractor thats strips out views and sheets: https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=7318700961041173172&appLang=en&os=Win64

 

I haven't used it yet but it seems to do what I need, following a 'Save As'

 

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andy.steyn
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Sorry I missed this reply - will test in a minute. 

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ToanDN
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Use Transmit a Model tool so you can choose specific views and sheets to be included.

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