The first three options are on your own network: These options are crucial for sharing work with colleagues, customers and business partners with Revit®’s Central Model capabilities. In the rest of this blog, we’ll explain and review the 5 options you have to provide this read & write access for your team members to the Revit Central Model File. Deploying Revit® Central Model: 5 Options For this to work, each team member needs read and write access to the Central Model File (note: team members don’t need access to each other’s computers). This means that the Central Model File now incorporates the changes from the local copy. Whenever they want, they synchronize their local worksets and elements (which should be unique to each user) with the Central Model File. In other words: the three team members in the picture all work on a local copy of their Revit® model. “All team members save their own local copies of the central model, work locally, and then use the Synchronize with Central command to synchronize their edits to the model with the central model.” ( AutoDesk - Managing the Central Model ) So, what is Revit®’s Central Model and how does it work?Īs you can see from the figure above, Revit®’s Central Model acts as the central hub for all changes made or published to the file. Finally, we will give you a short guide to pick the option that is the best fit for you. Then we’ll take a look at each of the 5 options, explain what they do well, as well as what their limitations are. If you’re not that familiar with Revit®’s Central Model capabilities, don’t worry. While designairspace has ‘skin in the game’, we will stick to the facts, and keep our opinion to ourselves. as well as 4 viable alternatives.Īs you may have guessed, one of these alternatives is our own cloud-based FileShare service for Revit. In this blog, you will learn each of them – one of them being Autodesk’s own cloud-based BIM Collaborate (formerly known as BIM360). You may wonder if Autodesk’s BIM Collaborate – for roughly $700 - $1000 per user, per year, depending on where you live – is better for you than a solution built with the free Revit Server software.Īctually, there are 5 ways to deploy workshare with Revit, each of which has its own unique characteristics. But as you may have discovered, there’s a cost associated with this capability.

Revit®’s Central Model is essential for teams to collaborate and share work.

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