The short answer to this question is yes it does! In practice this is a somewhat nuanced question so lets explore more. There are several ways of working with keynotes in BIM 360 with different types of support. Here is a list of the options we know of and how KM works with them:
- The keynote file is separate from the Revit model, so even if your Revit model is hosted on BIM 360 the keynote file can be on a local network and Revit will do just fine. In this case KM works no differently than if you were working on a local file (because you are). This solution works well if you don’t need to share keynote data with those outside of your network.
- If you need to share keynote data outside of your office/network text files becomes a pain. For this situation Revolution Design offers cloud services. Cloud Services allows you to host your keynote data in a cloud based database and access it from anywhere and share it with other users or companies (with permissions). This is an extra charge but allows you to collaborate worldwide without worrying about file sharing; the same concept as BIM 360. With cloud services your notes are hosted in a cloud database hosted by Amazon Web Services (with all the security and reliability that Amazon provides). Hosting in a database instead of a file allows for transactional changes so only the changes are being pushed and pulled from the server, not the entirety of all your notes each time. This allows for full real time collaboration with other users anywhere in the world.
- The last option is to place the text file on a file sharing application like Dropbox or Autodesk Desktop Connector/BIM 360. While this is theoretically possible we don’t recommend it for real collaboration. File sharing applications see the entire file as a single unit instead of individual notes so they have to upload and download the entire file for every change. Because of this, they tend to be slow and collaboration in our experience is difficult. This can also at times lead to an overwrite of files and loss of data when the file upload/download process can’t keep up with the changes. While this system can work if the file is read but rarely ever changed, for any live files we recommend using one of the other two methods.