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25 In the Save to Central dialog, select:
■ User-created Worksets
■ Borrowed Elements
26 After the file is saved, click File menu ➤ Save to save a local copy.
27 Under Comment, enter Reassigning elements to their own worksets.
28 Click OK.
29 Proceed to the next exercise, Using Worksets with Multiple Users on page 419.
Using Worksets with Multiple Users
In this exercise, two users access the central file through a network connection. For training purposes, they
are referred to as User 1 and User 2. Each modifies the structural model within their local file and publishes
it back to the central file where the other user can see the changes. Throughout the process, each user must
check out worksets, make elements editable, and reload the latest changes.
This exercise requires the completion of the previous workset exercises and access to the resulting local and
central files. If you have not yet completed these exercises, please do so before continuing.
Although this exercise is designed specifically for two separate users with network access to the central file,
a single user can complete this exercise by opening up an additional session of Revit Structure and setting
the user name to User 2. In the following section of this exercise, instructions are provided on how to
accomplish this.
NOTE If you are working with a second user (User 2), skip the following section, and proceed to Create a local
copy.
Use a second Revit Structure session to mimic User 2
Create a local copy
1 Minimize the current Revit Structure window.
2 Start a new Revit Structure session by double-clicking the Revit Structure icon on the desktop
or by selecting it from the Start menu.
3 On the Settings menu, click Options.
4 Click the General Tab and, under User name, enter User 2, and click OK.
WARNING After completing this tutorial and closing the project file, return to the Settings dialog,
and reset the User name to your computer login name. This is a system setting.
5 In this exercise, two users work on the structural model residing in the central file you created
and saved in a previous exercise. If both users have completed the previous worksets exercises
and created central files on the network, select one of those central files to be used in this
exercise.
Regardless of which central file you choose to use, one user has already created a local file. For
training purposes, consider that person to be User 1. The user who has not yet created a local
file for the chosen central file is User 2. The next series of steps create a local file for User 2.
Throughout the remainder of this exercise, instructions are staggered, specifically sequenced,
and refer explicitly to User 1 and User 2.
User 2: Create a local file, and check out worksets
6 Click File menu ➤ Open, and navigate to the location where you saved the central file named
Worksets project-Central.rvt.
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