Synchronize with central

What it does

Synchronizes the active document (or the one you name) with its central model, like Revit's Synchronize with Central command: Revit loads your colleagues' changes into your model and saves yours to the central, where everyone sees them.

Your AI can propose the synchronization options:

• a comment, which stays in the central;
• what to relinquish after synchronizing: everything (as Revit usually does: borrowed elements and worksets), only the borrowed elements (the worksets stay yours) or nothing;
• whether to compact the central (slower);
• whether to save the local copy before and after (yes, as Revit does, unless you say otherwise).

It synchronizes nothing on its own: you decide, every time, in a Revit dialog.

How it works

1. You ask your AI to synchronize; it prepares the request with the options and gets the job number right away, without being blocked.
2. BIMit checks the document and brings Revit to the front with a dialog saying what is asked: document, central model, comment, what is relinquished afterwards, compacting or local save turned off if that is the case, and what will happen.
3. To approve, tick "I have read the request: I approve this action only" and choose "Approve: synchronize now"; "Deny" does nothing. Revit synchronizes right away with those options.
4. Meanwhile your AI follows the request with Job status and at the end gets the result: document, central, comment, what was relinquished, whether it was compacted and how many seconds it took. Until you answer, it can withdraw the request with Cancel the job.

Example requests

• "Synchronize with central with the comment 'Ground floor plan revision'."
• "Synchronize but keep my worksets: relinquish only the borrowed elements."
• "Synchronize and compact the central."

What changes and how to undo

After your approval, your model receives your colleagues' changes and the central receives yours, for the whole team; if you chose so, elements and worksets are relinquished and the central is compacted. If you deny the request, or your AI withdraws it before you answer, nothing changes.

A synchronization cannot be undone with Ctrl+Z: what reaches the central, everyone sees. That is why it always asks for your approval in Revit.

Limits

Your AI's access level must be Team: only you raise it in Revit (Level), for a time you choose, and it goes back to the default level when that time ends and at every Revit start.

• The document must be a workshared model attached to its central: not a family, not a model opened detached, not read-only, and with no operation in progress in Revit.
• If the central is locked because a colleague is saving it, BIMit does not wait: the synchronization fails and you try again later.
• The dialog only accepts an answer given by a person: with the box ticked and after reading it; while Revit is playing a journal the request is denied.
• While the dialog is open, the other tools that use Revit answer that Revit is busy.
• Only one synchronization request at a time can wait for your answer.
• A worker Revit (opened by BIMit in the background) does not do team actions.

Parameters

Related tools

• Relinquish elements
• Save as central