Maintaining Linked Revit Files in an Unloaded State

When working with a Revit file that has linked Revit files, you may decide to unload one or more of the linked files to help improve file performance. This will not be an issue until you enable Worksharing on your Revit file. After you enable Worksharing, Revit does not maintain the unloaded state of the linked Revit files in your local file when you ‘Synchronize with Central’ or ‘Reload Latest’.

You can maintain the linked Revit files in an unloaded state by doing the following:

• Create a Workset for each of the linked Revit files and place the linked Revit files in the Workset created for that linked file.
• Go to the Worksets dialog box and ‘Close’ the Workset that you want to unload and keep unloaded after you ‘Synchronize with Central’ or ‘Reload Latest’. Closing the Workset will unload the linked Revit file contained in the Workset.