Ever want to put together those sheet-sets from the comfort of a beach in Waikiki with a piña colada in hand? Well, with Revit, you can, by collaborating over a wide area network (WAN), or by virtualizing Revit. In general, collaborating on a model over a WAN is much like collaborating on a model within your local office. The Revit Server has a central model—that is, the definitive copy of the project. Users copy this model onto their local machine and check out worksets. The worksets effectively block others from making changes to certain parts of the central model while the user is editing elements on a workset. Here are some tips to improve performance over WAN: 1. Efficient Models. In order to maximize the effectiveness of this local-machine-to-central-server link, it is important for the model to be clean and well-structured in order to decrease upload and download delays. This is usually done by purging unused elements, keeping families lightweight, and avoiding over-modeling. Avoiding linked files such as linked AutoCAD files, point clouds, and texture images also helps optimize performance. Linked files should be put on separate sheets, and the central file should be compressed intermittently. ...
Ever want to put together those sheet-sets from the comfort of a beach in Waikiki with a piña colada in hand? Well, with Revit, you can, by collaborating over a wide area network (WAN), or by virtualizing Revit. In general, collaborating on a model over a WAN is much like collaborating on a model within your local office. The Revit Server has a central model—that is, the definitive copy of the project. Users copy this model onto their local machine and check out worksets. The worksets effectively block others from making changes to certain parts of the central model while the user is editing elements on a workset. Here are some tips to improve performance over WAN: 1. Efficient Models. In order to maximize the effectiveness of this local-machine-to-central-server link, it is important for the model to be clean and well-structured in order to decrease upload and download delays. This is usually done by purging unused elements, keeping families lightweight, and avoiding over-modeling. Avoiding linked files such as linked AutoCAD files, point clouds, and texture images also helps optimize performance. Linked files should be put on separate sheets, and the central file should be compressed intermittently. ...