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SteveB

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We have r2017 + a360 + C4R and we are collaborating successfully with outside MEP and Structural consultants using CR4 and their models are linked using the collaborate / manage cloud  models feature in C4R.   (our first project - still a it hazy about best practices for walking that thru, lots of bim vendor time required to iron out the bugs).    I want to also use other architects outside of my office to do portions of the work.   I have 2 architect/consultants who have done this for other firms, but they do not know specifically what their clients are doing to "link" their models in...

Both Revit architect consultants I talked to said that their client-firms that hire them (let’s call that the FIRM), send them a Revit model (including r2017) which they -the consultants, use (a workset maybe???) that they are given permission to use by the FIRM, then the FIRM "brings in" or "links" the work they did on the shared r2017 file, not just drafting views.   Neither of the consultants know what exactly their FIRMS were doing, electronically, to make that happen, the "linking"

MY QUESTION:  what are the specific steps that would be best practice to do this [1] The Firm shares them a copy of the model... then what is the consultant doing, and what is the Firm (us) doing with that model when we get it back?  

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Hard to say what they are doing.   You both can not be working with the same model elements.   The consultant could be working with new model elements that are later added to the host model.  The consultants could not be creating any model views because these would be lost. 

If the consultant is working on something that can be isolated like interiors and their sheets are isolated, the file could just be linked like a MEP consultant.

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