Am I understanding this correctly?

[Marc_L_]

I'm adding a second member to my revit team, previously it's only been myself. This particular project required the revit model to be hosted as a cloud model for coordination purposes. The project is partially complete at this point, and I only need to second person to be able to access it for a couple months. Even though we're already giving autodesk tens of thousands of dollars a year for ACC and AEC collection, we need to pay additional in order to have 2 people work on the same cloud share model. When I go to convert the cloud model to a workshare cloud model, it warns me "Users who don't have a subscription for Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro cannot work on the model" and it also says "A workshared cloud model cannot revert to a non-workshared cloud model"

So does this mean, that if I convert, I need to continue to pay for a BIM collaborate Pro license for myself in order to continue to access my model, even though I no longer need the BIM Collaborate Pro features? Otherwise I'll get locked out of my model?

[asha_jain755QX]

@Marc_L_ To work on cloud workshared models, all members would need a Revit and Forma Design Collaboration subscription. For more information please refer to Subscriptions required to work with cloud models in Revit
Once you convert a model to a cloud workshared model, it cannot be directly converted to a non-workshared model.
You can download the model and open it in Revit as "Detach and discard worksets," and then you should be able to save the model again as a cloud workshared model. For more information please refer to How to convert a Cloud Workshared file to a Non-Workshared model file in Revit

[hossein_madaniMJSBM]

It's definitely a pain having to pay for additional seats for Forma Design Collaboration. The solution @asha_jain755QX  above works, but honestly it makes more sense for medium-sized projects or when multiple disciplines need to work together regularly. For small with limit budget projects, I usually use Autodesk Viewer to share models with engineers and other disciplines instead of paying for extra collaboration licenses.

[asha_jain755QX]

@hossein_madaniMJSBM If no more than one user is going to work on same model but many users would have their own discipline models then each user would only need a Revit subscription which includes Forma Data Management Essentials now. This would allow to save non workshared cloud models. And these models can directly be accessed from cloud in Revit but only one user can work one particular model at one time. Multiple users can work on their individual models.

And it can be definetely starting point for many small budget projects to have one unified platform where they can work and share models and live link cloud models instead of sharing through drive or any other medium. It retains version history too.

[hossein_madaniMJSBM]

@asha_jain755QX 

I think we're talking about two different scenarios. If everyone works in their own model, a regular cloud model works well. My point was about multiple people working in the same model, where the extra licensing can be a challenge for smaller projects.

It's not really an issue, but I think Autodesk could do more to encourage firms to use these cloud collaboration services.