topic How does a team work on an ArchiCAD file? in Teamwork & BIMcloud

How does a team work on an ArchiCAD file?

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:56:48 GMT

How can many people work on the same house?

Big building I imagine hundreds of people working on the same file, while I have problems with 5 people working on it;)

One is working on roof, one terrain, one facade, two interior.

I've started using Onshape, but it's not BIM; it's a cloud CAD solution, but working many people on it, everyone sees the changes.

Is there no cloud solution for ArchiCAD or is it on the way?

Anyways, how does one do it, when dealing with files today?;)

Re: How does a team work on an ArchiCAD file?

Erwin Edel — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:29:46 GMT

Ehm, with Teamwork.

Re: How does a team work on an ArchiCAD file?

Ignacio Azpiazu — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:40:37 GMT

Search for the 03 GRAPHISOFT Collaboration Guide.pdf, installed with Archicad. There is linked files (say a building model file, a site model file, a layout file), there is published and linked modules, there is Teamwork, which you can combine.

Re: How does a team work on an ArchiCAD file?

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 23:16:47 GMT

Our office only works on Teamwork, as we only deal with large jobs, so we need lots of people working at the same time on different areas, So we set the pln. file into a Teamwork file.

This allows everyone to reserve sections of the building and makes sure ppl don't do the same thing twice or change things people are currently working on.

BUT one big tip is to make sure you don't overload the file with external sources or if you need to, make sure the that the external source files linking to the 'TW' file is in the same place so it dose not slow it down.