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Force relinquish another user in cloud-based worksharing

Force relinquish another user in cloud-based worksharing

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Force relinquish another user in cloud-based worksharing

- [Instructor] I have a worksharing tip for you this week, it's actually specific to cloud-based worksharing. So, if you're not sure what cloud-based worksharing is, let me briefly explain. When you're in a workshare environment, you have two choices, you can either host the central model on your local server, on the local area network in your office, and then folks within the office can connect to and access that central model, or you can use cloud-based worksharing, which requires the BIM 360 design service, that is a paid service, you would have to pay per user in order to utilize it, but this allows you to put your central model in the cloud, store it on the Autodesk servers, which are hosted on Amazon AWS, and then perform worksharing tasks as normal, just with your central model being in the cloud instead of in your local server. Now, there are some advantages to cloud-based worksharing, and we've got a whole course here in the library devoted to the subject, so you're welcome…

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