Leverage team communication to optimize Revit performance.
Communicating efficiently in workshared models can reduce unnecessary interruption to team workflow.
- Any large project requires constant team coordination. Many teams have adopted instant messaging (IM) software to help coordinate model editing and saving between geographically dispersed teams. Likewise,
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- When making significant changes in a project, such as moving a level, perform the operation when no other users are working on the file. Be sure all elements are relinquished. When the changes are complete, ask all users to make new local files.
- Sync with Central operations can be accelerated by a preceding Reload Latest command.
- When a project is edited by other users for a day or more, it may be faster to create a new local model from the central model rather than relying on Reload Latest to update the individual local model a day or more behind the remainder of the team.
- Attempt to keep project team workstation specifications equivalent. A dramatically weaker machine specification used by a single team member can reduce overall project performance.
- Revit saves only one local model at a time to the central file. As deadlines approach and the frequency of saving to central increases, use Worksharing Monitor to coordinate Save to Central operations across the team. Alternatively, team members can stagger their regular saves to the central model by either communicating an intention to Save to Central to the team or by assigning a standard saving time to each team member, for example, at ten or fifteen minutes after the hour.
- When attempts to Sync with Central collide, a dialog notifies that another user is currently saving to central. Cancelling the Sync with Central operation will prevent queuing the save request, allowing the user to continue to edit the local file before another attempting another Sync with Central command.
- Revit attempts to update all open views before saving, so both local saves and saving to central will increase in performance if a simple view, such as a drafting view, is the only view open when the save operation begins.
- To reduce disk usage, regularly compact central and local files.