Hey we have some exciting news! We are partnering up with MEP Guy to launch the most effective REVIT courses for MEP designers and engineers! Check out the Electrical course preview and sign up here: www.mepguy.com/electrical As a special bonus, we're offering a free download of an Electrical Clearance family that anyone can use to designate a "no fly" zone or clearance zone that must be maintained in front of electrical equipment. Drop it anywhere you need folks to keep clear of zappy things!
The thing that separates the workset in the filter tab in VG is its security, especially if working with other modelers, so the security of work will correspond to the owner of the service, scope or trade only, that divides the project from different areas in construction but beware of relinquishing owned workset cause sometimes it cost time delays if someone didn't relinquish his/her own element
if workset can think as layers I think it is also equivalent under the filter tab in visibility graphics, I think with the options in filter in vg is much more related to layers of cad
hello thank you for this video . may i ask you please something ? if you're working on a project for which worksharing is enabled and no one is the owner of the core workset . what happens if we try to move something in the core workset ? thanks in advance
That’s a great topic! In a workshare environment, ownership is by Elements. So when you move or edit something in the Power Workset, you will own that element in the workset until you sync and relinquish. You will only own the workset if you change its global visibility, change its name, or close that workset. This is definitely a topic I should cover in more detail. There are good practices everyone should follow when you work with other people in the same model.
And just in case whoever reading this doesn’t know, when you own an element, no one else can make changes to that element. This way, Revit doesn’t let two people do different things with one element and cause a conflict. Once you finish the change, the owner needs to sync and relinquish the element they own, otherwise no one can change it in the future. The rest of the team also needs to synchronize to see the update to that element.
Your wearing a Myrtle Beach shirt, you from around here? I own a company that models MEP systems (BIM Coordination) for sub contractors and general contractors. We are switching over to Sysque and Revit from CAD based Platforms after 15 years. Thanks for the tips.
Eh relatively close 😄 I’m in Pennsylvania but I do try to venture out of state for vacations. That’s awesome! You guys do BIM level of design 300 and up? I love seeing the detailed fabrication models that we sometimes get back from the contractors.
As always great video, love the way you explain things Quick Questions Question1: What's the difference between show and use global setting(visible)? Question2: let say we add a TV and put it to the Furniture worksheet, If I place the same TV again into my project would it remember that its part of the Furniture Worksheet? or we have to manually change it again?
1) If you leave it at global (visible), you can go into Manage work sets and globally turn off that workset in your entire project. If you put it on Show, you can’t change the visibility in Managed workset. 2) unfortunately it won’t remember that all TVs belong to Furniture Workset. Sometimes if I get reports of things being on the wrong workset, I would right click, Select Similar, in Entire Project, and place every tv in the project on the right workset.
OK. Thanks. Can worksets work like layers in AutoCAD in other ways? For example you can click on an item in AutoCAD and make it the active layer or turn it off.
pardon the super late response...somehow missed your comment. I think of Worksets and Filters like this: You manually put elements into a Workset while you set up a Filter to automatically find and apply a certain look to elements that meet your Filter parameters.
While that may work, worksets can transfer to a linked model to allow them to turn it on or off on their end. Worksets can also be used on their end when they make their own filters to show a group of devices differently. Sure you can change categories if you’re a small company but when you’re families are managed by the BIM department that takes 3 years to get around to updating a junction box family, you gotta do what you can with the tools you have.
Does your firm disable the "edit family" button? In Revit, families aren't tethered to a larger upstream repository, so you can just edit the family you have in your own project.
No but they do have a BIM coordinator checking on the projects daily and they fix some clashes or replace families from UniFi if they’re altered without permission. I added clearance to a family once and they slapped my wrist and overwrote the family with the original. Has to submit it as a change and officially accepted before they allow it as a standard family for the company.
Hey we have some exciting news! We are partnering up with MEP Guy to launch the most effective REVIT courses for MEP designers and engineers! Check out the Electrical course preview and sign up here: www.mepguy.com/electrical
As a special bonus, we're offering a free download of an Electrical Clearance family that anyone can use to designate a "no fly" zone or clearance zone that must be maintained in front of electrical equipment. Drop it anywhere you need folks to keep clear of zappy things!
The thing that separates the workset in the filter tab in VG is its security, especially if working with other modelers, so the security of work will correspond to the owner of the service, scope or trade only, that divides the project from different areas in construction but beware of relinquishing owned workset cause sometimes it cost time delays if someone didn't relinquish his/her own element
if workset can think as layers I think it is also equivalent under the filter tab in visibility graphics, I think with the options in filter in vg is much more related to layers of cad
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Very clear to understand. Thank you
hello thank you for this video .
may i ask you please something ?
if you're working on a project for which worksharing is enabled and no one is the owner of the core workset . what happens if we try to move something in the core workset ?
thanks in advance
That’s a great topic! In a workshare environment, ownership is by Elements. So when you move or edit something in the Power Workset, you will own that element in the workset until you sync and relinquish. You will only own the workset if you change its global visibility, change its name, or close that workset.
This is definitely a topic I should cover in more detail. There are good practices everyone should follow when you work with other people in the same model.
And just in case whoever reading this doesn’t know, when you own an element, no one else can make changes to that element. This way, Revit doesn’t let two people do different things with one element and cause a conflict. Once you finish the change, the owner needs to sync and relinquish the element they own, otherwise no one can change it in the future. The rest of the team also needs to synchronize to see the update to that element.
Great video
Great explain...
Your wearing a Myrtle Beach shirt, you from around here? I own a company that models MEP systems (BIM Coordination) for sub contractors and general contractors. We are switching over to Sysque and Revit from CAD based Platforms after 15 years. Thanks for the tips.
Eh relatively close 😄 I’m in Pennsylvania but I do try to venture out of state for vacations.
That’s awesome! You guys do BIM level of design 300 and up? I love seeing the detailed fabrication models that we sometimes get back from the contractors.
As always great video, love the way you explain things
Quick Questions
Question1: What's the difference between show and use global setting(visible)?
Question2: let say we add a TV and put it to the Furniture worksheet, If I place the same TV again into my project would it remember that its part of the Furniture Worksheet? or we have to manually change it again?
1) If you leave it at global (visible), you can go into Manage work sets and globally turn off that workset in your entire project. If you put it on Show, you can’t change the visibility in Managed workset.
2) unfortunately it won’t remember that all TVs belong to Furniture Workset. Sometimes if I get reports of things being on the wrong workset, I would right click, Select Similar, in Entire Project, and place every tv in the project on the right workset.
Beginning electrical fixtures,outlets, lighting panel,power panel,transformer
OK. Thanks. Can worksets work like layers in AutoCAD in other ways? For example you can click on an item in AutoCAD and make it the active layer or turn it off.
Yes! You can manage which work sets you want to see in the Visibility and Graphics override window. They behave just like layers in AutoCAD
Sir system colour?
this is a great video, thanks a ton
Did you mean workset equal to AutoCAD xref?
More like Layers that you can "freeze" or "thaw"
Plz make for VR (View Range) I like your way of explanation.
That's a great topic! Will do a video on it
What is the difference between using worksets and filters? Also, thanks for the video great explanation and is concise.
pardon the super late response...somehow missed your comment. I think of Worksets and Filters like this: You manually put elements into a Workset while you set up a Filter to automatically find and apply a certain look to elements that meet your Filter parameters.
Thank you!
You should be changing the categories of your families or making view filters. Worksets are not the right tool to control view visibility.
came here to say this. He could've used view filters to solve the same problem
While that may work, worksets can transfer to a linked model to allow them to turn it on or off on their end. Worksets can also be used on their end when they make their own filters to show a group of devices differently. Sure you can change categories if you’re a small company but when you’re families are managed by the BIM department that takes 3 years to get around to updating a junction box family, you gotta do what you can with the tools you have.
Does your firm disable the "edit family" button? In Revit, families aren't tethered to a larger upstream repository, so you can just edit the family you have in your own project.
No but they do have a BIM coordinator checking on the projects daily and they fix some clashes or replace families from UniFi if they’re altered without permission. I added clearance to a family once and they slapped my wrist and overwrote the family with the original. Has to submit it as a change and officially accepted before they allow it as a standard family for the company.