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Hey guys!! I need your opinion: I am an architect working for a big firm. We are now starting to use Revit Building 8.1. We are making a office Building on 20.000 sqm and 20 levels. This building is in the phase before the construction phase. We work in team of 4 persons with worksets. But it goes sooo slow comparing with working in Autocad n 2D!!! And everytime we want to modificate something in a workset, and because this modifications concern to the rest of elements on other worksets, we have to grant all the time to each other inside the team!!!! Do you really think that in the future will save us time!!!? Shall we go on using Revit for future Ejecution projects? It is Revit so worthly? Thank very much,
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Revit can save a ton of time. You have to structure your workflow and team to take advantage of it though. Sounds like you need to re-think how your worksets are structured. If try to beat Revit into a CAD system then you will fail at any time savings. I stuggle with this where I work as they want all the benifits of Revit but want to keep the same workflow and team structure as a CAD project. Ultimately you need to let Revit be Revit and then things work out just fine.
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U can also divide the building up into linked files where certain people in your team will be working only different areas of the design ex. One person works on the first 5 floors another on the second five etc. Or even different elements within the design like your service cores etc. Read up on using linked files they make things go much faster.........Hope it helps.
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We don't use worksets most of the time. We just completed a mult-stry hotel with 5-6 people working on it most of the time and had no problems. We try to pay attention to who is doing what to limit conflicts but even then, we would sometimes be notified that we couldn't do something because another person had modified it and was in control of it. A simple request for them to save and our reload would solve the problem. That didn't happen very often.
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Its also a good idea not to check out any worksets, and instead to just borrow elements (this happens automatically when your modify an element that you don't own). Then just remember to save to central systematically every 30-60 minutes and you shouldn't have hardly any performance issues. I've worked on projects much larger than that without any performances hits that required breaking the model up into linked sections.
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