Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012: No Experience Required

Working in the Revit Shared Environment

With the local model saved, you're free to work away. As you'll recall, you created the central model with three worksets: Shared Levels And Grids, Workset1, and Site. You, as a local user, can begin working away. As you start editing the model, however, Revit makes a note that you're borrowing a workset. Revit also notes that you physically own the item you're editing.

Borrowing? Let's stop and look at what this means. In Revit worksharing, you can be either a borrower of a workset or an owner of a workset. If you're a borrower, the rest of the design team can make modifications to elements in the workset but not to the specific element you're working on.

The objective of the next exercise is to make a ...