I am working on a project in Revit where a workset was created because i needed more people on my project....(I dont fully understand worksets, etc.. so forgive me..)
I work from home 1 day a week, I cant source our network, so I put the file on portable hard drive and fire up my home computer and reload on monday morning the weekends work. This was fine when I was the only one working on the file, but I guess this changes now, due to the local vs. central files right??? Is this impossible to do now?
Thanks in advance for your help...want to be able to keep working from home when I can due to a 90 miles (one way) commute..
I am certainly not a revit expert, really I am a novice, but don't you just synchronize the file with the central file when you get back to the office? I guess it wouldn't pick up any of the changes that were made by others between the time you left the office and the time you get back. Meaning that if someone moves a duct in the model while you are gone you will need to go back and coordinate any changes you might have made to a soffit for that duct while you were at home. But for the most part this shouldn't be a big problem if you are working on separate parts of the model anyways (say you are working on the shell and someone else is working on the core.)
Why aren't you just working off a central server that can be accessed from home?
Copying files to a floppy (or whatever) seem very antiquated.
If you can't access the network, there are still ways to remotely access your workstation. You may not be working on the same part of the project as your coworkers, but there is always a chance of overlap, and when that happens, you'll just be in a world of pain. You should lobby for a solution that will work for you long term, not just 'works for now'. Is there an IT person at the office? They should know everything about this topic.
Taliesin, unfortunately right now, there is not a great 100% solution out there for you.
Remote accessing a machine located at your office could be something that could work, however, you're going to deal with a certain amount of lag in your screen refreshing.
Working on a local file from home connected to the central file located at the office does not really work either. The lag between your machine checking out worksets and elements and it registering with the central file is two slow and will cause errors. Revit won't be able to sync effectively. Revit 2011 has a new utility (that I haven't used) that is supposed to help with this, but I'm not exactly sure it will work.
Copying a file off and bringing it home does not work unless you are very very careful or are able to split the worksets into area of which only you are responsible for. You would need a workset for Bob and one for Joe (or these could be Core & Shell, and Furniture)... but on your off day, you would have to check out your workset (essentially locking everybody out of workset "Bob", for an entire day)... then returning to the office and syncing. In theory that should work. But it's incredibly risky. If Joe drinks a couple of Redbulls and really changes the model to the point where your local file is no longer compatible, you will have a wonderful monday morning error message that tells you you've lost an entire days worth of work. And, if you're at home, and you need to edit something outside your workset, you're SOL until to head back to the office. In instances where a "Bob" wall is connected to a "Joe" wall, you won't be able to do anything that will affect that connection.
Of course, large companies are investing in technology like Riverbed to try and do what you're talking about, but this is more office to office management. And it's pretty expensive.
I haven't really thoroughly test a lot of the options i've talked about, so if anyone has any other experiences, please chime in.
You really dont want to copy a local file, work remotely, then try to synchronize the file at the office, you'll be setting yourself up for problems.
I suggest getting a free logmein.com account. This will at least allow you to work remotely acting as if you at your office computer.
Yeah, it seems like there isn't a very good solution to the problem... even if you check out your proprietary worksets, if someone else changes something that you have also changed in the central file before you reload your user file into central, your whole file could be rendered outdated and therefore null and all work lost. The idea of working without saving to central for days makes me really ridiculously nervous. I think the remote access is the only way to go. Good luck!
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I am working on a project in Revit where a workset was created because i needed more people on my project....(I dont fully understand worksets, etc.. so forgive me..)
I work from home 1 day a week, I cant source our network, so I put the file on portable hard drive and fire up my home computer and reload on monday morning the weekends work. This was fine when I was the only one working on the file, but I guess this changes now, due to the local vs. central files right??? Is this impossible to do now?
Thanks in advance for your help...want to be able to keep working from home when I can due to a 90 miles (one way) commute..
I am certainly not a revit expert, really I am a novice, but don't you just synchronize the file with the central file when you get back to the office? I guess it wouldn't pick up any of the changes that were made by others between the time you left the office and the time you get back. Meaning that if someone moves a duct in the model while you are gone you will need to go back and coordinate any changes you might have made to a soffit for that duct while you were at home. But for the most part this shouldn't be a big problem if you are working on separate parts of the model anyways (say you are working on the shell and someone else is working on the core.)
Why aren't you just working off a central server that can be accessed from home?
Copying files to a floppy (or whatever) seem very antiquated.
If you can't access the network, there are still ways to remotely access your workstation. You may not be working on the same part of the project as your coworkers, but there is always a chance of overlap, and when that happens, you'll just be in a world of pain. You should lobby for a solution that will work for you long term, not just 'works for now'. Is there an IT person at the office? They should know everything about this topic.
Taliesin, unfortunately right now, there is not a great 100% solution out there for you.
Remote accessing a machine located at your office could be something that could work, however, you're going to deal with a certain amount of lag in your screen refreshing.
Working on a local file from home connected to the central file located at the office does not really work either. The lag between your machine checking out worksets and elements and it registering with the central file is two slow and will cause errors. Revit won't be able to sync effectively. Revit 2011 has a new utility (that I haven't used) that is supposed to help with this, but I'm not exactly sure it will work.
Copying a file off and bringing it home does not work unless you are very very careful or are able to split the worksets into area of which only you are responsible for. You would need a workset for Bob and one for Joe (or these could be Core & Shell, and Furniture)... but on your off day, you would have to check out your workset (essentially locking everybody out of workset "Bob", for an entire day)... then returning to the office and syncing. In theory that should work. But it's incredibly risky. If Joe drinks a couple of Redbulls and really changes the model to the point where your local file is no longer compatible, you will have a wonderful monday morning error message that tells you you've lost an entire days worth of work. And, if you're at home, and you need to edit something outside your workset, you're SOL until to head back to the office. In instances where a "Bob" wall is connected to a "Joe" wall, you won't be able to do anything that will affect that connection.
Of course, large companies are investing in technology like Riverbed to try and do what you're talking about, but this is more office to office management. And it's pretty expensive.
I haven't really thoroughly test a lot of the options i've talked about, so if anyone has any other experiences, please chime in.
You really dont want to copy a local file, work remotely, then try to synchronize the file at the office, you'll be setting yourself up for problems.
I suggest getting a free logmein.com account. This will at least allow you to work remotely acting as if you at your office computer.
so, i should have made it more apparent, but i think that first option is really the only one that might work. remote access a machine at the office.
Logmein isn't all that bad. It allows you to adjust the colors, less colors runs faster. How often do you actually need to see in color anyway?
thanks...
Yeah, it seems like there isn't a very good solution to the problem... even if you check out your proprietary worksets, if someone else changes something that you have also changed in the central file before you reload your user file into central, your whole file could be rendered outdated and therefore null and all work lost. The idea of working without saving to central for days makes me really ridiculously nervous. I think the remote access is the only way to go. Good luck!
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