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    Revit integration with PW - is anybody using it?

    Brendan McFarlane
    Offline Brendan McFarlane over 9 years ago

    If anyone has any feedback on using the Revit inegration functionality with PW, I would be glad to hear it. We are planning a large project at the moment and PW has been proposed as the collaboration platform, but as it it our first major BIM project, I am wary about committing to it without testing first on a less critial project.

    Any user experience good or bad would be useful, thanks.

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    • Andrea Jackson
      0 Offline Andrea Jackson Wed, Apr 30 2014 4:38 PM

      We recently began using ProjectWise with Revit.  We have experienced a number of hiccups when using Central files.  I can not tell you how many times our central file was became corrupt and had to be recreated from local copies or older versions.  We have experienced quite a bit of lost work and lost time.

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    • Shawn Foster
      0 Offline Shawn Foster Fri, May 9 2014 9:00 AM in reply to Andrea Jackson

      As Paul said, read the white paper first.  Bentley originally created the PW/Revit toolset around Autodesk's own whitepaper on "Best Practices on Revit Worksharing" which is the Workset process, not Element Borrowing.

      The Workset process works very nicely because during borrow/check out is when Revit hits the *.dat files (the eperms, the users, the wperms, the requests).  After the workset checkout, Revit doesn't touch those files until you send the Workset back (or do another).  Those .dat files check out quickly via PW, get written, and get sent back.  

      With Element Borrowing, those files are always going all over the place, and it could get tricky.   In a large project, distributed or not, Worksets are the way to go, in my opinion.  I'm sure others may disagree, but I've never had an issue when I was working in Revit using Worksets.

      You probably already have the information in another format, but if you go to midamericacadd.org/2013-conference-presentations , you can download a presentation done at last year's Mid America CADD Community's conference here in Kansas City around ProjectWise and Revit, which includes some nice AVIs.

      HTH,

      Thanks,

      Shawn

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    • Shawn Foster
      0 Offline Shawn Foster Fri, May 9 2014 9:00 AM in reply to Shawn Foster

      Oh, and we are using it as well... :)  "We" being our divisions that use Revit as we are standardized on PW for our work.

      Thanks,

      Shawn

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      0 Offline Shawn Foster Fri, May 9 2014 9:00 AM in reply to Shawn Foster

      Oh, and we are using it as well... :)  "We" being our divisions that use Revit as we are standardized on PW for our work.

      Thanks,

      Shawn

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