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file in order to release that workset. This method, however, may not work
efficientlyinallcases,andthemostthoroughandreliablewayofreconciling
these differences is to use Synchronize And Modify Settings.
Undo, Undo, …
Undo
!
We tend to rely on the good-old Undo button to clean up our messes,
but beware: The Undo function will have no effect on workset
ownership or borrowing of elements. Once you own a workset or
borrow an element, it is yours until you release it. Additionally, should
you delete objects such as views or families from the Project Browser
without first making their workset editable, the Undo history is reset.
Just as you would when opening and unloading a linked file, you should
take extreme care when deleting anything.
Controlling Visibility and Worksets
One of the key advantages to using Revit for project design is that it enables
you to visualize the model. You can also use visibility settings to define
how your views will appear on construction documents. With the model
divided into worksets that denote the engineering systems, you can harness
this power to help you design more efficiently by using working views. A
working view
is one that may show more or less model information than
would be represented on a construction document.
The first feature of visibility control is simply turning items on or off. This
appliesnotonlytomodelcategoriesbutalsotoworksets.Whenworksharing
has been enabled in a project, an additional tab, Worksets, appears in the
Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog box, as shown in
Figure 3.21
.
