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I'd like to know how some of you handle Revit projects out of house. It seems to me that Revit works best when all consultants are in the same office working on a networked central file. Security and bandwidth problems can arise when outside consultants need to gain access to the central file through VPN, virtual workstations, etc. Other offices may use linked files to circumvent the issue, but the full benefit of BIM seems to be lost when linking Revit files. For instance you may lose the ability to make wall penetrations with registers, ductwork, doors, & windows using linked files. Also, I'm almost positive that MEP cannot add lights and diffusers to a ceiling that is linked. I'd appreciate your comments.
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I believe most of us still use linked files because to this date, there has not been a good solution to out of network file sharing. For hosted objects, we doi have some options using the copy monitor process.... ie .. structural owns structural walls, architectural CM's these walls so that they can place hosted objects like doors and windows. Ceilings are a pain for MEP but they can place in their model the generic ceiling (has no physical characteristics) to host their ceiling hosted objects.
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It turns out that my post could not be any more timely! An article was just released today stating that Revit will begin issuing a free service to subscribers that takes advantage of a Central Server as opposed to the traditional Central File. This system is analagous to Archicad's worksharing method. http://www.aecbytes.com/buildingthefuture/2010/RevitServer_CEA.html For the time being someone on another forum suggested a product called Riverbed that may work until the Revit Central Server has time to get it's bugs worked out. http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=98421&type=member&item=30797720&commentID=23642437&report%2Esuccess=8ULbKyXO6NDvmoK7o030UNOYGZKrvdhBhypZ_w8EpQrrQI-BBjkmxwkEOwBjLE28YyDIxcyEO7_TA_giuRN#commentID_23642437 PS: I accidentally replied with this message to the wrong thread earlier; my bad.
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The new central server looks promising but it has some hardware requirements: Windows Server 2008 and 64-bit servers
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