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Working Offsite and Offline

WARNING Working offline can put your project at risk.
You can work remotely, provided you have high-speed network access to the central file or can transfer your
local file to someone with network access.
To work offsite or offline:
1 Make the necessary worksets editable while still at the office and connected to the network. See
2 Be sure to save your local copy of the central file before you close it; otherwise, your changes to
3 Work on the project offsite as you would in the office. You can modify elements in editable
Editing Elements You Do Not Own Offline
To modify elements in a workset you do not own, you can specify the status of the workset as Editable. This
is known as Editable at Risk and should be avoided whenever possible.
If another team member saves changes to any of the same elements that you have changed, you cannot
save any of your changes to the central file; all your changes in all worksets are lost.
If you make a workset Editable at Risk, it is recommended that you:
1 Ask a colleague, who is in the office and has access to the central file, to start a session of Revit
Architecture and specify your name as the User Name. See
2 Ask the colleague to open the central file, check out all the worksets that you have at risk, close the file,
and reset the User Name to their name. It is not necessary to save the central file.
This procedure prevents other users from making the workset editable and changing the same elements. If
someone else has checked out that workset or has borrowed elements in it, there is no way to assure that
there will not be a conflict.
Rendering Workshared Projects Offline
WARNING Rendering offline is generally not recommended.
If you render the model offline, you will likely change material assignments and other project settings. To
change project settings, you need to check out some of the Project Standards worksets. If you make these
worksets editable while you are still connected to the central file, other team members working on the project
cannot change the Project Standards worksets that you are changing. If, instead, you make the worksets
Editable at Risk after going offline, you risk losing all of your changes.

Upgrading Workshared Projects

Before you upgrade the central file to a new release of Revit Architecture, it is recommended that you create
a backup copy of the central file for each workshared project in the current release. These backup copies are
for use only if a new central file becomes corrupted.
IMPORTANT If there are linked models in the central file, the linked model files must be upgraded before the
central file.
Making Worksets Editable
workset editability are not saved in the local file when you take it offline.
worksets, and you can create new elements in any workset.
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Options on page 504.
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