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Copying Revit Files from one BIM 360 folder to another in the same project.

Once a week my team goes into BIM 360 and does this to copy the published models out for other teams to download/use. We literally go into BIM 360 and use this command on 4-5 models each week.

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I'm trying to figure out how I can automate this for the team. The Copy File command doesn't seem to have a straightforward way of copying from 1 BIM 360 folder to another. 

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Dan,

We actually ran into this with our "Upload to Model Coordination" task. It turned out that what a percentage of the population wanted was not "live models" uploaded into a separate folder, but a Publish/Copy method. (I believe it works better in a federated model scenario of some kind?).

So let us know if this works for you?

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DW

This did pretty much exactly what I was expecting: 1) publish the model, 2) wait for publish to finish, 3) copy the model to a desired location 4) version up the model.

The feedback I would give you is this. The task sits with the model open (in a not responding state) until the publish finishes. There's no prompt or feedback that the machine is waiting for the publish to finish outside the Journal file.

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It would be convenient if this information was displayed in the task window. So when I go to see "did this task fail or is it just waiting on a publish to finish?" I don't have to open the journal. (sorry my mouse is in the middle of my Screenshot)

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But yes, this is great for Navisworks or Model Coordination based workflows on BIM 360. Question, if we wanted to do a similar process (but preserve worksharing) between ACC or BIM360 projects could I? 

Dan - 

We'll look into conveying that better.

Any time that you need to preserve worksharing, you need to use one of these two tasks:

- Update Revit From Disk (push a new copy of a Revit file from a network location into BIM360/ACC)

- BIM360 Migrate (move copies of files from one project to another, preserving worksharing).

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Dan,

Doing some cleanup on some of these questions, and it feels like this didn't get added...

No, this process does not work between ACC and BIM360 projects, unfortunately.

The best you can do on that front is to use the BIM360 Migrate task to make new workshared Revit files, reading from one project and writing to another.

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