Autodesk 240B1-05A111-1301 - Revit Architecture 2010 User Manual page 9

Revit Structure and Revit Architecture
Similarly, the architectural team works on their own collection of architectural worksets.
The project model is shared dynamically between users - each user contributing their own
skill set when appropriate. Team members adding elements to worksets do not work in a
vacuum: they can see the latest changes from other team members and be sure the
project design is progressing in a well-coordinated manner.
Team members can save their work to local files on their own hard drives and publish
work to the other team members whenever they choose. Other team members then reload
the files to see any changes.
By using worksets in a single shared file, the engineer still maintain "ownership" of
whatever structural elements the architect might originally have created as well as any
new structure. It's his job to define and modify the entire structural design according to his
engineering judgment.
The architect can still view the structural elements of the engineer's workset and use them
with the "element-borrowing" capability. Element borrowing lets multiple users dynamically
access (and edit, based on user permissions) shared portions of a project model, but
eliminates the possibility of editing conflict. Element borrowing happens automatically
unless other users have those worksets or elements editable. For example, the architect
would have to request from the engineer to borrow the girders; he cannot use the
structural beams until he has been granted permission by the engineer to borrow them
and has reloaded the engineer's latest changes to them.
With a single shared model, Revit technology improves multi-discipline coordination while
preserving responsibilities; structural elements remain the engineer's responsibility and
the architectural elements remain the architect's responsibility.
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Figure 12:
Users are granted
permission by workset
owners to borrow and
modify model elements.
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