Create your central model again everything will work fine after you do this. Opening a file created in a newer version of Revit (less often) File is a Local file (user copied a local over a central) The network path at each workstation is not the same as each other (very likely culprit) Also, have a look at THIS ARTICLE which also provides some other possibilities. I think it makes sense if you think about it. Welcome to Autodesks Revit Architecture Forums. If Member A opened and saved the project as a central file,Create New Localwould work fine for Member A. (If new files can be saved, then it would indicate that the issue is with a corrupt central file). Privacy | Do not sell or share my personal information | Cookie preferences | Report noncompliance | Terms of use| 2023 Autodesk Inc. All rights reserved. If you hadn't made a point to attack me personally when I just stated facts, I would be more than willing to help you out with your misconceptions and mistakes but I'm tired of the personal attacks. It's clear that you really don't have much experience working in a truly collaborative environment and won't accept the advice of someone with many successful projects under their belt. I was googling and going through the help screens. I have a BIM 360 cloud model I am trying to just save a backup locally before I make a bunch of changes to the model (yes I know BIM 360 saves a bunch of these files automatically). Couple thoughts: 1) When you open a file with "Detach" selected, which option do you select: "Detach and preserve worksets" or "Detach and discard worksets"? You might be working on a Central model itself. Autodesk does not warrant, either expressly or implied, the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the information translated by the machine translation service and will not be liable for damages or losses caused by the trust placed in the translation service. Important: Everyone needs to make a new Local file. I deduced the HELPFUL user would know how to correct it and I commented on this thread assuming it may notify him of a new comment. Open the central model with "Detach from Central" checked. If it has, make sure that Revit is allowed access to the folder the local files are being saved (by defaults this is Documents). Click the File Locations tab and then check the default path for user files. Why won't Revit let me do this here? Saved it as my local file. When you click Open, the Opening Worksets dialog displays. Open the project file (RVT) to use as the central model. \appdata\local\Autodesk\Revit\\CollaborationCache\\. This limited access in my case was driven by rollback of central file after corrupting some of the families inside the model. In the Open workset default list, select one of the following. For example your project folder is mapped to letter S:One user has mapped S: for \\10.10.10.5\Projects\Your Projectanother one has mapped S: for \\server00\Projects\Your Project. When browsing to a central file to start working in a project, the 'Create New Local' option is grayed out in Revit: Only the 'Detach from Central' option is available when attempting to work with the central file. Note: If you have installed the Revit Cloud Worksharing add-on, then: Click Collaborate tab Manage Collaboration panel Collaborate. Do not sell or share my personal information. 7. Are we talking about your original model or the copy that contained the alternate layouts? Only worksets open in the last session open. In the File Save Options dialog, select Make this a Central Model after save. Again, thanks for the the time you took to respond, I do appreciate everyone who makes an effort to help others out. **MOST COMMON REASON** The PATH in which the central model created is different for the user who created that central model than yours. This forum is for community support, not chiding anonymous users to fulfill some need for arrogant superiority. By default, the local file is created in MyDocuments folder, and your username will be added to the file name, like in the example below: SYNCHRONIZE You need to find the "real" Central Model: . the server where the central file is turned off, . you need to detach always all files you are not saving as a central mode, REVIT EXPERT ELITE is it working for you ? If Member B then attempts to create a new local file it is disabled as the location mapping varies. Fabio Itiro Sato| @fabioisato| Fabio Sato. How to create a Central Model file with Autodesk Revit Products and versions covered John Offield at Seiler Design Solutions, LLC May 15 2020ScreencastBeginner Add to Collection The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. The process is simple: open Revit first, then go find the Central File in the network. Ask the community or share your knowledge. Try saving a new file to the host server to check if the host is working. If a corrupt file is received, invalid filehandle, or past its end message, the central file may need to be, Make sure to have enoughhard disk space free: See. Autodesk does not warrant, either expressly or implied, the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the information translated by the machine translation service and will not be liable for damages or losses caused by the trust placed in the translation service. Learn how to Detach a file from a Revit Central Model and the difference between the 2 options. The next dayafter the affected user came back from lunch he had the same issue where the Create New Local was greyed out when opening the same file. Open a file explorer and go to "This PC". Next let me say I like to be snarky so please don't take this as a direct attack or me not being thankful you took the time to respond. Just don't create local file with standard process ( Open-New project-Select central file-tick local file and open it), 6.You will receive error for move/copy central file to different location- Click to proceed. This means you are either not in the correct version of Revit for the selected file (upgrading would be bad or and newer file format simply cannot be opened) or you have selected a local file. To translate this article, select a language. Autodesk does not warrant, either expressly or implied, the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the information translated by the machine translation service and will not be liable for damages or losses caused by the trust placed in the translation service. Click Collaborate tab Manage Collaboration panel (Worksets). Oh geez sus kriste - I know that. If you keep work sets the detached modelbecomes a new central model. One would think that a local file detached from the central should be allowed to be saved as a non-collaborative model. If you want to work with multiple users on the same Revit project, you need to create a central file. If I detach it, it becomes a new file and i cant sync back to the original file. Specify different worksets or click OK to confirm the default. I am checking the file path under their login. Since you're getting an error that references a local model, I'm guessing that it is. However, when I go to Save As and select Options, the box for 'Make this a Central Model after save' is checked and greyed out so I cannot uncheck it. Then close the file completely and reopen it again. Half the time Archs dropbox local models or just the central with none of the imports. So it needed to become a central model to be utilized within our company before being sent back to the architect for collaboration. "Save As" back to back. Opens all worksets in the central model. Inhere there are several other GUID folders with project files, also GUID names, these can be opened as detached models. H311, I have a hard enough time trying to get people not to import schedules from Autocad and use families. Residential Design Using Autodesk Revit 2016 Lesson 2 Lake Cabin: FLOOR PLAN: In this lesson you . The Worksharing dialog displays, showing the default user-created worksets (Shared Levels and Grids, and Workset1). Check the path name is correct C:\Users\Username\Documents as an example. Work shared central model on the server: Make this a Central Model after save, Option - unchecked & not greyed out. If you are opening the file for the first time, all worksets open. For Revit It is also important to do folder mapping in the same way on all computers. Do not sell or share my personal information. Maybe the problem is that there is no workset or workset is not activated in the project which is why it's greyed out. Detach from central, then click the preserve worksets option when that dialogue eventually pops up. Find out which GUID corresponds to which model (if multiple models), the GUID is always identical unless the Central is recreated on BIM360. Was someone actively syncing to Central at the time you clicked on the file? Use the central model. If you select options you will notice that Make this a Central Model after save and Compact are greyed out and pre-checked. To translate this article, select a language. Don't detach the file. I sincerely hope you didn't synchronize this second model after you created it, because if you did you probably just made your original model a duplicate of the copy. Using Revit MEP 2012. My options when I open the file to detach from central or to create new. You're doing it wrong. Any other suggestions? That's true of any folder however. The alternate has since been discarded but now every time I open the File I get a message " this local file has been copied" and tells me that in order to fix this I must save as the central file. Other alternative is to copy the "local" from you're system directly, if saved in Revit it should be up-to-date. I tried that with the same results, the initial PC can open it with Create New Local but the other PC's can't. The central file is located on the server.Then, each us. Did not fix the problem I'm having an issue with Revit 2016, two computers have the Create New Local greyed out, while three other computers are fine. Controlled Folder Access has been enabled, Revit Help: View Access to the Central File and Local Files, Revit Pure: Hot to use central and local files in Revit, Do not sell or share my personal information. 2011-06-13, 09:42 PM #2. gvluisi. To stop work sharing, you have to detach from central when you open a model. If you can do that without an error, verify that it's the original and not the alternate model. Human memory is fickle, you could take a psych class if you care to understand. Revit Mechanical & Electrical Systems 2018 Certified Professional, The file does not use worksets (occasionally to blame), The network connection/resource is busy, or disconnected (likely culprit), Someone is creating a local at the same moment (less often, but happens), Opening a file created in a newer version of Revit (less often), File is a Local file (user copied a local over a central), The network path at each workstation is not the same as each other (very likely culprit). Opens all editable worksets. I tried this procedure on the PC that is having issues as well as the two other PC's that can work both create a new local. Please make sure you are not working on the Central Model. Specify different worksets or click OK to confirm the default. Map other PC's to the same location/same path format. Press Ctrl+A to select all worksets in this dialog. I want to just save a non-collaborative version of the model as a backup. Once the file is open, Save As with a new file name (eg. View Lesson 2 REVIT Residential.pdf from ENGINEERING 21.4720002 at Central Gwinnett High School. 3. Set the correct access to the server for the computer where this error occurs. Ask the community or share your knowledge. Local files folder is "My Documents" - which is a terrible choice. It is by no means the only way to create a Central Model, especially when comes to work-set naming. This page was generated at 07:34 PM. You rock! How did you "share" the folder. Working on a project with several central files. I would address the WARNINGS list Folder of CENTRAL model has unusual permissions set, or set to have maximum number of users The path where LOCAL files are saved, is My Documents and I recommend you change it to something better, like C:\Local Revit The EXACT path the CENTRAL model is located MUST I repeat MUST be the exact same one used by ALL team members working on the model. "C:\users\david\documents. I'm glad you managed to resolve your issue. That means I need to export from the linked file, not from the central? The way the path is defined on the PC that creates a central file defines how all PC's must access the central file. Folder where the Revit file is, has not restrictions and is shared to Domain Users (I even manually added User A manually and gave him full control). All suers are in the same OU in Active Directory. Check the file location path to see if there is a path? Collaboration tab > Collaborate > Within network > then save as > Project > Options > Make Central. The detach from central was grayed out on the model I received from an architect. In the Save As dialog, click Save. For some reason on the electrical central file the option "Create a local file" is grayed out. I have no idea why, any thoughts? @TripleM-Dev.netfirst let me say thank you for responding. Try having another project participant attempt to open the central file to rule out a profile/system-specific issue. Revit just doesn't give you the option right when you open the file and detach, you have to first save it and then make it a new central model. Hope this makes sense and thanks for helping me understand this. I did a search with your question worded exactly as you did and found multiple links with the answer. In the File Save Options dialog, select Make this a Central Model after save. See the following help topic for initial troubleshooting on this topic: If the central model opens, then the issue is with writing the local model. If it's the original, save it as the new central using the "make this a central file" option and say yes when it asks if you want to overwrite/delete backups. Just got Revit 2017 installed. Pick your battles. I have looked this up and followed the steps indicated but my "save as central" is always greyed out as is "open workset default". Both users are in the same Domain Users group. Share your knowledge, ask questions, and explore popular Revit MEP topics. I just checked and no, the two current users working on the file are working on a New Local file. Everything works fine but I would like to get rid of this annoying message. In your screenshots, you are trying to open that Local Model, that's why you can't save it as local: it's already local. The save local is greyed out for all my revit modles and it doesnt matter where its saved or the version I use. If you keep worksets, you would only do that if it is going to be a collaborative model (no worksets in a non-collaborative model). Perform the following steps to check to see if project members are accessing the central model through different paths: Open the central file after browsing to the location in Revit. Before you create a new central model, be sure to rename the workshared file or specify a different directory path before saving. Save over the central model. There is one more thing to say to this topic. If you discard work sets the detached model becomes truly detached and now a non-collaborative model. Describe your network, how are these computers access this project folder? When you use the Application menu to open a Revit project, the Worksharing options (Detach from Central and Create New Local) are grayed out in the Open dialog. Go to Solution. Reset the user name to the previous value (from the step 3.1). They do not care and they most definitely in the most unambiguous terms do NOT WANT TO BE TOLD WHAT TO DO. Opens specified worksets. In Revit, go to the application menu click on Save as, Project and name it the same as the original Central file name and in the original location. 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