Hello everyone,
My team is encountering some workflow issues with Revit Worksharing and D5 Live Sync on a residential tower project. We are a team of three and are hoping to get advice from anyone who has successfully set up a multi-user project like this.
Our Current Setup
- We have a central Revit file.
- Each of the three team members is working on their own local Revit file.
Problems We’ve Encountered
- Livesync connection limit: Only one of our local Revit files can establish a live-sync connection to the central D5 Workset at a time. The other team members are blocked from connecting, even when they’re on different worksets.
- Model placement errors: When a different team member syncs their model, the entire building shifts to a wrong position in D5, as if the origin points aren’t aligned correctly.
- Inefficient workaround: Our current solution is to work in silos. Each team member creates their own local D5 file, and we then attempt to merge the three files.
- Merging issues: The merging process has problems as well. If a team member creates a copy of an existing 3D view in Revit that is already linked to a D5 file, that copied 3D view is not correctly brought over when merging the D5 files.
Has anyone dealt with a similar Revit/D5 team workflow? We would greatly appreciate any advice or best practices you could share on how to get this working smoothly. If it helps, I can provide more details about our team’s specific settings or include screenshots of the errors we are seeing.
