Copying with Worksets

[dgallegos]

To Whom It May Concern,

Being a long time supporter and power user of Autodesk products for the last 15 years I come to you with an idea and an absolute must option that should be added in a Revit Update ASAP. In Autocad when copying an item the new item would keep the layer properties. This is an ABSOLUTE MUST for Revit with worksets! I work with one of the leading electrical contractors on the west coast and we copy thousands of items a day.  We copy racks, sleeves, stub ups and stub downs, conduit as well as the rest of our custom families. We are constantly syncing and gluing and switching between tasks and more often than not we are having to copy and this a huge nuisance. It creates issues when making updates to sheets and such on the fly for our field. This could be something that is automatic when copying or even a check box like copying multiple. THIS IS NEEDED ASAP! I hope this makes its way to somebody who can make an update on the fly. I appreciate your time and hope to hear back from somebody. Much thanks!

David

[Anonymous]

I'd like to have the ability to check the 'Lock Workset' box within any Revit family so that when we create more instances of that same family, it will be placed within the same workset automatically.

On the same note, if we have the option to choose an already inserted family in the project and have the option to select either one, or all instances and check that same box to "Lock Workset" to a particular workset that we want to assign these families to.

Most of the time, we have families that only need to be placed on a particular workset, so having this ability will help control entities being placed on the wrong worksets.

Please vote this up to allow Autodesk to implement this feature onto their next update. Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

Hi.  I'd like to be able to copy one ore more entities and still have those newly copied entities be in their respective workset.  Often times, we'd copy something already on the right workset, but then because (prior to copying) we forget to change the workset to match the items being copied, everything gets placed onto that current workset.

Ideally, if I copy a door (on Door workset) and 2 windows (one Windows workset), the copied entities should remain on the original workset that they were copied from.  Hope everyone can relate and vote this up, as it's a lot of time wasted trying to move entities back to their correct workset.  This happens so often, it's surprising that Revit is still unable to accommodate.  Thank you.

[acrossonbouwers]

This absolutely needs to be changed. And if not the default being changed, at least have a setting in the options where we can change the default behaviour ourselves. 

[Anonymous]

Yes there are many people asking for this. Since REVIT can't provide it, here is a free app can do it.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-mep-forum/copy-and-paste-why-does-phase-change/td-p/6221166

[Aaron.EllsworthTFCLR]

This could be more clearly worded as:

When copying an element or elements the copies should keep their original workset, instead of changing to the active workset.

[Zwielehner]

Hi @Anonymous ,

while having a workset for separate categories is not a workflow I would recommend, our tool would allow you to automatically assign elements to a predefined workset. So it can be set by category, family and type; while modeling or later in batch. Please check it out and let me know what you think!

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=6384070377181495514&appLang=en&os=Win64

(disclaimer: I'm the developer and I'm more than happy to make further improvements to this!)

[zsombokdavid]

I'm so confused about how this is not an option in Revit....o.O Copying should mean creating a duplicate of an element with all of its properties (including workset!) Pls make it happen! 🙂

[Aaron.EllsworthTFCLR]

I'm pretty sure this could be implemented in less than a day.

[twhite3BUF6]

When working on a plan with multiple worksets it would be beneficial to have the ability to lock a component (pipe, mechanical unit, device, etc...) to a specific workset, regardless of the workset that is currently active. So when a component needs to be copy/pasted it maintains the workset it was originally assigned instead of assuming the workset that is currently active.

For example:

I'm working on an overall plumbing floor plan for the first floor of a three-story condo with four unit types and 3 or 4 units of each type. For whatever reason the client wants the risers, drains, etc... all shown separately so we set up several worksets; PL-OVERALL, PL-RISER, PL-ENLARGED, PL-SAN, PL-VENT. Within each individual unit all worksets will be represented. When we're drawing, for example, the riser for the water closet, it will have components that fall under the PL-RISER, PL-ENLARGED, PL-SAN, and PL-VENT worksets. Once it's drawn it doesn't make sense to redraw it three or four more times so, naturally, we copy and paste where needed. Each component of the original maintains the correct worksets while the components of the copy are all switched over to whatever workset is currently active. Now I have to go back, select each component, and manually change their workset. 

This wouldn't happen, and would save a ton of time, if we could just lock components into specific worksets. 

[twellins]

We got custom software made to do specifically just that.  Would be nice to come out of the box.