Revit: An effective tool for performing collaboration

Autodesk Revit, useful BIM modeling software, facilitates users to perform BIM collaboration in an efficient manner. This software assists to gain effective insight into spatial relationships and change management. This software enables users in sharing project information with each other and developing an accurate 3D coordination model by integrating the 3D architectural, structural and MEP model.

Revit has total five different versions – Revit Architecture, Structure, MEP, LT and BDS (Building Design Suite Premium & Ultimate).

How to perform external collaboration (file linking) using Revit 

It is required for all project members to work using particular Revit version (for example, Revit 2013) so that they can properly open the project and make links to another project files without any hassle. One important note on this software is - any version of it is compatible with its later versions, not with the previous versions.

Guidelines for Internal Collaboration (Worksets) 

It is also required that the product build number must match when team members use the worksets. It is not mandatory for external teams to work on similar build, but for internal team it is necessary to work on the same build. Professionals can get the product build number by clicking on Product’s ‘Help’ menu and then ‘About Revit’.

Revit Collaboration 

Except Revit LT, the coordination monitor and interference check tools of other versions allows users to make coordination architectural, structural and MEP engineering disciplines and detect clashes immediately when they link the 3D model of other discipline with their model.       

Benefits in performing collaboration

·          Helps viewers to view the comprehensive 3D coordination model effectively
·          Assists to control the linked model elements graphically
       Helps in identifying interferences between the host and linked model 
      
      Coordination Monitor
      
     Coordination monitor is a tool of Revit that allows the host file’s elements (except the LT version) to observe changes in companion elements in the linked file. 
      
      Advantages of using Coordination Monitor
·         
     Helps to choose standard elements (i.e., floor, stair, ceiling) in the host as well as linked models and observe the effect of one another for making changes
·    Assists to select particular elements in the linked model (not applicable to the Architecture and Structure version) and copy it to the host model
      
       Interference Check
      
     The interference check tool of Revit (except the LT version) allows to check clashes between the host and linked model. This tool assists to identify interferences within the host model as well.
     Revit helps BIM professionals in enhancing their productivity and producing superior quality 3D coordination model for their building project. 

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