I recently had the opportunity to use Collaboration For Revit (C4R) and A360 to set up a Revit cloud model.

Revit Server seems to work well, however it takes time to set up at each remote location and is recommended to have a dedicated machine per server.

We solved this problem with worksets, but I digress. Even when things ran “smoothly,” we still would have performance of the model slow down to a screeching halt if two people from opposite ends of country were in the same model. I suspect that when syncing between servers happens too slowly it cause s the central models to become corrupt. We’ve tried Panzura, however we’ve experienced several issues with the servers. Although not impossible, sharing a central model over a wide area network (WAN) has proven difficult – even with hardware such as Panzura or software such as Revit Server. If you have ever worked in an environment where you have at least one designer at another office, you know the struggles associated with having a central model located anywhere but your local area network (LAN). This method attempts to solve the limitation of multiple users in different physical locations who all need to work on the same central model. Update: At some point after this article was published Autodesk has rebranded A360 – it is now called BIM 360.Īutodesk has launched a collaborative platform in which users have the ability to host their Revit central models on the A360 cloud.

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