Over this blog post series I’m taking a deep dive into how you can achieve the key benefits of collaborative design in the cloud using Autodesk BIM 360 Team and Collaboration for Revit. If you want to discover the nine key benefits of cloud collaboration (and how they can boost your BIM ROI), download the free eBook “Maximise Your Profit Margins With Design Collaboration”.
Benefit 4: Spend less on IT
Collaborative workflows have always existed within Revit. Traditionally, this is called ‘worksharing’, and it means that we can allocate objects to ‘Worksets’: think of them as being the equivalent of ‘layers’ within AutoCAD. As we know, in AutoCAD, we can hide, lock and freeze layers (or the opposite: show, unlock or thaw).
In Revit, it’s also possible to show or hide these worksets, but we can actually ‘claim’ these worksets, so that no-one else can edit the objects on the specified worksets. In other words, this is the basis for collaborative design:…