Revit Structure 2018 Intermediate and Advanced

Creating and controlling worksets

Exercise 19-1
1. Start Revit 2018

2. Go to File Menu, select Options, under General, change the Username to be

Yourname_Manager (we will change the username several times through this
exercise, so, if the username is important to you, make a note, at the end of
the exercise, you change it back to the original name)

3. Open the file Exercise 19-1.rvt

4. Save as the project Yourname_Central.rvt

5. Go to Collaborate tab, locate Manage Collaboration panel, and click

Collaborate button, and select the first option, and click OK

6. Start Worksets command. Look at the created worksets. Create two new
worksets, and call them Structural_COL, Structural_FLR, (take a note of the
name of the owner of the old and new worksets). When done, click OK

7. Select all columns. In Properties change Workset to Structural_COL

8. Select all floors. In Properties change Workset to Structural_FLR

9. Go to Collaborate tab, locate Manage Collaboration panel, and click Gray

Inactive Workset button, from the list select Structural_COL. See how all of
elements gray out except columns. Try it for Structural_FLR. Then turn off
Gray Inactive Workset button

10. Save the file, and read the message from Revit which tells you that your file
now becomes the central file

11. Go to Collaborate tab, locate Synchronize panel, and click Relinquish All
Mine button to release the ownership of all worksets (if you don’t do that, other
users can’t work with worksets)

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12. Close the file

13. Using Options, change the username to be MH1

14. Using File Menu, select Open, then select yourname_Cenral.rvt (use this
method) don’t click OK, make sure that Create New Local checkbox is turned
on, then click OK

15. Check the name of the file (it should look like yourname_Central_MH1.rvt)

16. Go to Worksets command, and make Structual_COL Editable (you will see
that the owner will be MH1)

17. Save the file, and Close it. Once Revit asks you if you want Relinquish, or
keep your ownership, choose Keep your ownership

18. Repeat this process as for MH2 and Structural_FLR, save but don’t close it

19. While you are in MH2 file, go to Level 2 floor plan, and try to move one of the
columns

20. Did Revit accepts the move, and why? _______________________________

21. Don’t send a request, click Cancel

22. Save and Close it, keep the ownership

23. Change the username to be yourname_Manager, and open the central file
(make sure you are not opening it as local file)

24. Go to South elevation view, and change the height of Level 4 to be 10000mm

25. Close the file, and answer Yes to save the file

26. Change the username to be MH1, and open yourname_Central_MH1.rvt

27. Go to South elevation view, what is the height of Level 4? ___________

28. Go to Collaborate tab , locate Synchronize panel, and click Reload Latest
button

29. What is the height of Level 2 after this action? ________________

30. Go to 3D view

31. Click on the Worksharing Display button, and select Owners, then select
Worksets

32. Select Worksharing Display Settings, and change the colors as you wish

33. Save and close keeping your ownership

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