saving to google drive

[Anonymous]

we are about to embark on our journer with revit.  but in stages. we are currently a mac based company. and plan to have two members of the team using revit.  with that being said, can we opt for the PC machines to save straight to google drive rather than the server???

[Anonymous]

As long as it is not a workshared project you should be fine.  Workshared/Central files should never be kept on a shared internet drive.

[RevitRx]

Playing with fire here. If you are able to trick your computers to re-path a cloud drive as a local drive, it is possbile. Did it once with dropbox, and I assume google drive would be similar. HOWEVER the instability and amount of lost work was not worth it in the end.

Although you are working on a local file located on your workstation, that file needs to constantly "talk" to the central file on the server (search for your .slog files deep in your C: drive to see Revit's communications with the server.....looks like the matrix) and when that connection no longer exists or loses connection, crashes happen. Honestly, all of this goes way deep under the hood in Revit's source code. Your best bet, if cloud computing is an absolute need for the project, BIM 360 is the way to go. Otherwise, using standalone files and sharing them on a cloud drive is perfectly fine. Hope this helps explain the situation.

[Aaron485]

I know this thread is older, but I am just looking into this, are you saying that a Central Revit model really should not be on Google Drive, or that it wont work well?

I was confused by your last sentence when you talked about stand alone files and then sharing, each person has a copy of the model on their machine when they join a central model right?

[RobDraw]

Google drive won't work for single user or workshared projects.

[Aaron485]

Thanks.  From doing some reading now it looks like BIM 360 is the way to go if you want to have a central model in the cloud and have people work on it from different locations.