BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise 2018 User's Guide
About the Revit link
The Meridian Enterprise application link for Autodesk Revit supports all of the Revit editions: Architecture, MEP, and Structure. The link provides:
- Meridian Enterprise property editing
- Title block data exchange
- File property data exchange, including custom properties
- Automatic presentation file generation and import
- Automatic vault import of files exported by Revit
- Worksharing
- External reference management
Note Resolving modified references requires read/write access. The model cannot be under change by any user. Reference resolution is not supported for models that are transmitted and workshared. Resolved absolute reference paths are converted to relative references to support model review.
Property data exchange between Revit and Meridian Enterprise occurs by a link between Meridian Enterprise properties and Revit properties. If your drawing title blocks use properties for the title block text, that text can be synchronized with properties in a Meridian Enterprise vault. Normal Revit text cannot be linked with Meridian.
Meridian Enterprise supports a limited set of Revit properties:
- ProjectIssueDate
- ProjectStatus
- ClientName
- ProjectAddress
- ProjectName
- ProjectNumber
Property data exchange and worksharing is configured by a system administrator as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Configuration Guide.
Together with the basic integration provided by Application Integration, any file created or used by Revit can be managed in a Meridian Enterprise vault. Conversely, Revit commands that request a file can access Meridian Enterprise vaults for document selection.
- The functionality provided in Revit by Application Integration is subject to the general limitations of Application Integration described in About Application Integration.
- Meridian uses Revit itself to update properties. Because Meridian will start and close Revit for each document, this will add a significant delay to actions that involve multiple documents, for example releasing an entire assembly. To improve performance significantly, simply launch Revit and keep it running in the background before starting the action.
Tip If you are part of a team working on Revit projects, contact a system administrator about configuring the project folders in the vault as shared workspaces as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Configuration Guide.
The commands for using the Revit link features can be found in the BlueCielo group of the Add-Ins menu in Revit.