Office Hours: Mastering Sync Traffic in Revit

[Intro]

Chris Shafer: Let's go ahead and get started with the presentation.

So today's objectives, one is just learn what is Sync Traffic Control and how it keeps your team members productive by avoiding sync conflicts.

Number two here is learn how Sync Control keeps everyone syncing on a regular basis. And we're going to get into detail on how all these actually work here in a minute.

And lastly, we're going to learn how to customize Sync Traffic Control.

So today's presenters are Parley, our founder of Guardian, and myself.

And as usual, this is an office hours, so mics are live. If you have any questions, feel free to raise your hand before speaking and unmute yourself.

And as always, the chats are monitored. And one of the most fun things about these office hours is seeing all of the I guess the Guardian fans out there in there in the chat, keeping the chat active and live.

Our team is monitoring the chat. If you attended last month's webinar, you would have already seen this. Each of our team members have their own custom emojis that they're going to claim a if you have a question, they're going to claim to respond that. Just to make sure we don't have multiple answers, multiple people responding and what not. Kind of keeping things nice and succinct there, and be able to answer your questions as quickly as possible.

Now, whether it is a question raised in front of everyone or in the chat, some of these may require a little bit longer to respond and to kind of answer those questions. So, we may push those back to the Q&A towards the end. And lastly, as always, these are being recorded and they will be provided on our website and on our YouTube channel.

So with that being said, let's get into the actual good stuff here. All right.

[2:20: What is Sync Traffic Control]

What is Sync Traffic Control? Sync Traffic control enhances Revit's native Sync with central. It does this by keeping teams productive and models performing at their best.

We do this through an intelligent sync queue that helps prevent sync conflicts before they happen.

In addition, you can create customized reminders to ensure people are frequently syncing, and if need be, also automate those syncs. With all of this, it keeps everyone's model current and keeps them clean.

[2:55: Why Sync Traffic Control]

So why Sync Traffic Control?

The first, sync conflicts. Out of show of hands here, how many people have frequently run into waiting for others to sync?

When sync conflicts happen, the second person in line experiences a sync time twice as long as a typical sync. Now you may be thinking, well, if the average sync time is 45 seconds, the person sitting there for a minute and a half, how bad could that really be, right?

Well, a lot of times, a minute and a half is enough for someone to be distracted, right? They get up and go do something else. They open up their phone and next thing you know, that minute and a half turns into five minutes. And now that continuation would have spent continued to work, had they been reminded, or had been able to go back to work, they would have.

So you see that first order of the time cost with a sync conflict but then that second order adds up as well.

The second is infrequent syncing. The other part of Guardian is to remind people to sync frequently. Infrequent sync times leads to longer sync times and potential loss of work.

So over the years I come up with a little adage around this is users don't sync because it's slow and it's slow because users don't sync. So Guardian is really meant to help prevent that negative cycle. you get people syncing more frequently, meaning their sync times increase, and then significantly reduce the potential loss of work or model corruptions that happen quite frequently with sync traffic control or excuse me, with Revit sync with central, right?

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