About Revit Cloud Worksharing

Before Revit users collaborate on a model in the cloud, you must upload the model from Revit to BIM 360 Document Management. During the upload process, the following events occur:

• If the model does not yet have worksharing enabled, worksharing is automatically enabled, the Revit model is uploaded to the Autodesk Docs project, and a locally-cached version is created on your computer.
• If the model is already workshared, the Revit model is uploaded to the Autodesk Docs project, and a locally-cached version is created on your computer.

As alternatives to using Revit Cloud Worksharing, you can use Revit Server to collaborate across a wide area network (WAN) or file-based worksharing to collaborate across a local area network (LAN).

When you use the Open tool in Revit to access cloud models, Revit ensures that you are working on the latest version of the cloud model. When you use Revit Cloud Worksharing, locally cached versions of cloud models are stored in the folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\Autodesk\Revit\<release>\CollaborationCache. The data in the collaboration cache should not be directly accessed or manipulated; therefore, the names of the folders and files are intentionally obfuscated.