Some Revit settings that are set at the beginning of the project should be lockable and should never be changed
again during the duration of the project. If they were to change midway through the project without consent with
the model manager, and submittals were sent with those settings, they potentially may not be able to go back to
the way it was before the change due to the recent submissions. Only acceptable way to move forward would be
to resend those submissions with the correct settings to move forward. Some of those settings are Keynote
Settings, Revision Settings and core template settings like Scope Boxes and Worksets.
We have had numerous occasions where these settings were changed midway through a project without the
Model Managers knowledge. A client kicks a deliverable back due to revision deltas or keynote numbers not
matching previous deliverables. The client may have not notice that the change happened until after several
deliverables and wants it to be fixed, but the only way to fix it is to change the setting back and redeliver all the
older ones that were impacted before moving forward. This may not be acceptable in a project, or even feasible,
but this this detrimental to a project, so these settings should be permission based and lockable.
This benefits your company by eliminating rework and saving money doing so, relationships with clients, as well as give model managers more protection and control over the project.