Sometimes other people (obviously not the Revit.King) create/ set-up a new project based with the office template (luckily for me, but more for THEM) and unknowingly have made a selection that brings up the "Opening Worksets" Dialog box every time you open the project. So now Revit is waiting for you to choose a workset to work in, before letting you "in" your model.....
This can be a pain if you are not wanting to select a workset every time you open the project to get started. So let's see why/ how this happens......
First off:
This is what you see when opening the project as mentioned above: (what a pain - ugh!)
While some may have use for this (large project, large teams), this project is not one of those and I do not want to have to do this step every time I open the project. I want it to open to the almighty "Open and close from this view" drafting view.
Next up:
This is the typical "Save" (aka "Save As") for first time save after worksets have been enabled:
This is usually the preferred method for our office (but changing the maximum backup #)
Somehow along the way, someone has made the mistake of saving this workshared project with this selection (SPECIFY) having been made before completion of save......oooops
Now, to correct this problem (if it is one for you or your firm):
EASY FIX: ------all you have to do is "Save As" from any of the local projects (**MAKE SURE ALL USERS ARE OUT OF THE MODEL**).
Select the correct settings that best fit your needs.
What we prefer.....FYI
After saved, close and tell all team members to make a new local.....they should open the project up right where you want them to be......
Why only 1 backup? I've found it very helpful to have multiple backups for rolling the model back to recover accidental deletions, etc.
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ReplyDeleteOur office has adopted a standard of quickly creating a new local every day, dated for that day. With these daily, dated locals, (or even the "Backup" file that is generated by the local), we can essentially have "bookmarks" in time for each day that will allow for bringing back the dead....model. We started with that number being 3, but still found little benefit for taking up more space on server.
I see the benefit when it comes to an hour to hour kinda chances of screw ups needing roll-backs, but we often have 2-3 people working in the same model, each of which is generating daily locals. This gives us more chances of having a place in time to "go back to".
Worst case, (even with only 1 person in the model) is you have to go back a little further to recover....
Thanks for your thoughts and comments Troy!
There is a huge advantage for opening Revit files by specifying which worksets need to be opened. But this advantage depends on the user. If a user needs to load several Revit links in order to model their elements, then specifying the required links instead of opening all the links will save a lot of time. But, because the file may be set up in ways (by the BIM or design manager) that are unknown to the end user, the users themselves end up "blindly" working with a method that is far from optimum. The more critical point is to know the scope of the user and plan the method to save the file accordingly, there is no one size fits all solution.
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