Workset Best practice

[Anonymous]

Greetings,

We are structural & architectural teams using the same revit central file

The problem is when the architectural team started to "for example" create block wall, by default if there are structural wall beside, it`s stretched to attach the new wall (as shown attached)

So i started to create worksets for the structural & the architectural elements to protect the sturctural elements from editing by the architectural team but we faced some issues:

1. More than 1 person supposed to editing structural elements in the same time that couldn`t be happened because once someone has owned the workset the other engineers can`t edit any structural elements 
2. Once the structural workset relinguished it becomes free for anyone to edit or modify

• If any one can advise the best way of using the worksets or any otherways to protect the structural elements from modificatoin that would be appreciated (binning is not recommended)

Thanks & Regards

[PrathapSekar]

Hi....

Refer the below image, select the wall which you don't want to stretch/join with other, you can see a small blue ball on wall end once you selected the wall, right click on that and hit disallow join. It will not allow the wall to join with other wall and you can stretch the wall length as you want. Think it will help you.

[Anonymous]

hi
many thanks for your assistance but actually it`s not practically, securely enough to create each wall, disallow join then stretch it to its place

[PrathapSekar]

Hi try this,

Open your worksets window, and create two work-set for structures (example: Structure 1 and structure 2), select Structure 1 and check the "family" checkbox under Show (Refer the image below). Once you activate the family check box you can see various families from all category, here you can give/cancel permission for different families for Stuctures 1, do the same for Stucture 2. So you can create Structure 1 work set for wall and Structure 2 work set for column beam etc.,