Convert to server-based worksharing in an environment where file-based worksharing is already in use.
While file-based worksharing provides sufficient performance when a Revit project team is working on a local area network (LAN), server-based worksharing provides the best solution for a team collaborating across a wide area network (WAN).
- Instruct all team members to synchronize with the central model and then exit Revit until the migration process is complete.
- Ensure that all team members have upgraded to the current release of Revit.
- Install Revit Server on all computers that will be used to host central models, cache central models, or run the Revit Server Administrator. (See Installing and Configuring Revit Server.)
- Deploy the RSN.ini file on each of the Revit application workstations.
- Start Revit.
- Open each central model from its current location with Detach from Central selected.
- Click File tab
Save asProject.
- In the left pane of the Save As dialog, click
(Revit Server Network).
- Double-click the name of the Revit Server Host where you want to save the central model.
- Click Options.
- In the File Save Options dialog, under Worksharing, verify that Make this a Central Model after save is selected. Then specify the desired setting for Open workset default, and click OK.
- For File name, specify the desired file name for the central model.
- Click OK.
Each team member must then do the following:
- Delete the local copy of the old, file-based workshared model.
- Start Revit.
- Click File tab OpenProject.
- In the Open dialog, navigate to the Revit Server Network and the appropriate Host, and select the central model.
- Under Worksharing, verify that Create New Local is enabled.
- Click the Open drop-down. For Workset, select the desired setting to indicate which worksets to open.
- Click Open.
- Click Save.
After team members have created local copies of the central model on the Revit Server Host, they can resume working on the model.