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If you have gone through a process of saving Central models, and you have forgotten to ‘Synchronize with Central’ before closing them for the first time, you may find that your user has all User Creat…
This has been a ‘best practice’ rule for a while now, but it still applies, even in 2017. You should not mix Revit 2017.1 and 2017.2 on a single Central File. This was flagged by pepar in the BIM Expe…
I’m sure you have probably seen this message before: Can’t edit the element until ‘problemUser’ resaves the element to central and relinquishes it and you Reload Latest This may be caused by one of yo…
If you are using multiple instances of Revit, against one Central file, using different ‘pseudo’ usernames, you may have run into trouble because Autodesk single sign on (SSO) always keeps you logged …
Revit Wants you to transmit ‘detached copies’ of Central files for linking into other models. If you ignore this and transmit your Local copy instead, Revit always remembers where that instance of the…
There is no immediately easy way to override the colour of an entire Revit Link. Of course, you can set up a View Template and override all of the individual subcategories, but that can get time consu…
Try changing the Worksharing Update Frequency setting: (this will only help if you are using workshared projects) Help: Controlling Worksharing Display Update Frequency…
Non-recent comment from Kyle (Autodesk staffer): Recognizing that Worksets alone were not flexible enough to facilitate productive collaboration in many cases, we implemented Element Borrowing. This e…
From Daniel Gijsbers blog:“if you try to open a revit workshared file (central file) with LT it right away makes a copy of the file with LT added to it’s name. But what is even more surprising it leav…
Until Revit comes up with some kind of advanced and granular permissions management for workshared files, we are left with a situation that requires best-practice Revit use combined with 100% obedient…