Have you ever been asked to send a client or consultant your Revit file for them to use? If you have worksharing enabled, do you send your Local file or the Central file? Similarly if you need to archive a Revit model at particular milestones, do you just copy and paste the Revit file into a new location?
These are all common questions which this blog post will hope to answer. I use to get nervous just touching the Central file as I didn’t want to mess any thing up! This blog post will outline and describe each step required to first create a Local file, export Revit models for an external consultant’s use, and lastly archive your revit model the correct way.
Creating a Local file
Starting with the basics, lets create a Local file. It’s good practice to create a new local copy of the central model every day. Creating a new local copy ensures a local copy is always on your hard drive each time you begin modifying a project.
To open a Central model and create a local copy:
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