Chapter 10

Worksharing

Understanding multiuser workflow is essential to completing your Autodesk® Revit® Architecture pilot project. There’s plenty of work to go around between the design, development, and eventual documentation of a building project.

If you’ve never used the Revit Architecture software before, you’re probably used to CAD. Multiuser workflow in CAD is a very different animal, so you may need to suspend your expectations of what it will be like to use Revit Architecture tools.

Whereas CAD projects are typically divided along the lines of what needs to be drawn (plan, section, and elevation at various levels of detail), Revit Architecture envelops you in the entire process. 2D, 3D, schedules, and so on, are in a single database, ...

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