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davidlowery

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worksets as I see them are ridiculous.  I work in a very small office and the only reason I have ever enabled worksets is so the architect can shut off the items that they also model.  Mainly masonry walls.  I don't need a central model and worksharing and all that.  I just need the architect to be able to shut off my masonry walls.

The pros of worksets for me:

The architect can shut off our masonry workset.

The cons:

I cannot work on the model at my home, because the server is not there. 

We frequently run into relenquishing / central file issues.

One more thing to remember is shanging everything to the right workset.

So here I am modeling all these masonry walls just so the architect can shut them off.  I would just draw lines in the plan, but then the joists have no real bearing surface and they come out all screwy.  I would like either a way for the architect to simply shut off all our walls without worksets, or have some sort of reference plane that joists can bear on that is invisible.

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You don't need worksets to shut off your walls.  All your architect would have to do is select your wall and hide the element, or select wall, right click, select all instances in project then hide element.

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So the Architect would have to open our file before he inserts it in order to select all instances and hide them right?  Surely he cannot select our file once it is already linked and do anything with it.

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You never said anything about linking files previously.. but if you are linking I believe you can shut off the walls of the linked files also.

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Well, I like the idea of "select all instances in the entire project", but once they are selected, do I click "hide in view?"  because that only hides them in the current view.  And of course the architect would have to open every section and detail and hide them in all those views which is no good.

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The architect could and should use view templates to control the linked model.  Easy to do.  But there are some special cases where we would like our consultants to use worksets for some special controls.

You don't understand the value of worksets.  That's too bad.  We use them even for models where only one person is working on the project and there are no consultant files..... But you don't want to and that's ok.  You are the one that will miss out.

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You don't understand the value of worksets.  That's too bad.  We use them even for models where only one person is working on the project and there are no consultant files..... But you don't want to and that's ok.  You are the one that will miss out.

What?  I have used worksets for years.  The issue I am having is that I cannot work on the file at my home office if worksharing is enabled.  And it does seem silly to model the walls when they are just going to be turned off in the architect's model.  And it is so much simpler when there is no central file, just 1 file in the whole office.  But I will try the view templates thing, and for that, I thank you.

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If you are the only one working on the model - there is no problem working at home using worksets.  This is nothing new.

Read this topic in your HELP:  Working Offsite and Offline

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