From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Accessing a multi-user projects using Workshare

Accessing a multi-user projects using Workshare - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Accessing a multi-user projects using Workshare

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I want to show you how you'd access a team project in Revit. So, by a team project I mean a project that has work sharing enabled. So just exactly what is work sharing? Well work sharing is the method or the process that we use to make a project available to multiple users at the same time. Everything you do in Revit is in a single project file. So if you just simply go to Open and select the file and open it up, you'll be preventing any of your teammates from being able to open it at the same time. They would get a message saying that the file's already in use. So naturally that's not going to be a good way to work in a team environment. So we need another solution. And that's what Work Sharing allows us to do. So in the Work Sharing methodology, we have a central file, and the central file is the master copy of the project. And it's usually stored on a network server where everyone has access. Then what happens is when you want to join the project team…

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