Opening with Worksets

If you are working on a LARGE Revit Project, you have the ability to speed up the file opening process by only having the editable worksets loaded on opening. Everybody relinquishes their worksets when Synchronising, this means that there will be virtually nothing visible on opening.

You will have to manually open the worksets before you start work on the project. This allows the user to only open the worksets they require rather that the entire workset list.

To open the worksets, click the Manage►Worksets tool and select the worksets and select Open, either in the drop down or on the right hand side of the dialogue box. (You can select multiple Named worksets by holding the ‘Ctrl’ key down on the keyboard)

Now you can start work!

To set this up on a Central file all you need to do is when you are creating the Central file you select the ‘Open workset default:’ and set it to Editable. (this process is usually handled by the Model Manager)

A continuation of the process is under the Manage Links tool, called Manage Worksets.

When you are Linking in Revit Models, you have an added feature under the Manage Links Tool. Which allows you to control the Worksets that are loaded with your linked files.

This tool works in a similar way to picking what worksets you want opened when you open your Revit Project file, but works on a Linked file.