This is an innovative solution for sharing CAD work among project team members. ArchiCAD allows multiple users to sign into separately assigned or selected portions of a TeamWork-enabled project. Using the multi-functional marquee, a team member selects layers and objects that they want to work on. ArchiCAD then tracks and consolidates all changes to the master project file every time a TeamWork user sends and gets changes. Meanwhile all your colleagues are locked out from editing those objects until they are releases.
Security is provided through administrator level control with automated backups and project log.
This is a really elegant and flexible solution to a big problem. To get detailed drawings out of ArchiCAD there s a stand-alone printing utility called PlotMaker which is a 2D only environment. Once the 3D project is saved in a PlotMaker format this is linked into the main project file. From here you generate plot layouts, pasting in your final drawing configuration for output. There s a drawing window so you can alter the model in a good old 2D way to make sure everything is just as you want it.