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Funny Revit Error Messages

· Luke Johnson

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Helpful…

Revit time travel?

Ever felt this way? (via (@apertedesign)

Even Revit knows that new features will be added in the future:

This post used to be titled Another dimension beyond XYZ?  Inches to the fourth power …
but I have decided to collect funny Revit error messages and put them all here.

I received this message from Revit recently:

Then this tweeted image reminded me of it:

via Twitter / architect_face: Anyone had this error before? …
Evidently, Revit sometimes gets a bit confused by certain combinations of formulas and / or units?
EDIT:  Here’s another good one-

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via
Square feet per foot dialog | BD Mackey Consulting | The Revit Geek Blog

EDIT:   And some more-
Aaron Maller ‏@Twiceroadsfool
@lukeyjohnson @dourevit LOL. It’s funny but it’s not legit- I made the app, and the error…

And some warnings:

EDIT: Another one

and one from Aaron Maller

EDIT:  More will be added below–

Another square feet per foot:

Danger: Square Feet Per Foot!!!Thanks for warning me #Revit #StupidComputer #ArchitectLife #Work twitter.com/PrestonBrock/s…
— Preston Kissman (@PrestonBrock) January 9, 2013

 

One more for @lukeyjohnson Happened in #Revit2013 when restoring project from renamed (hence unreachable) backup dir twitter.com/dourevit/statu…
— David Baldacchino (@dourevit) February 15, 2013

 

Opening a local file with some problem in #Revit2013 Here you go @lukeyjohnson add it to the pile! twitter.com/dourevit/statu…
— David Baldacchino (@dourevit) February 28, 2013

This one via Revit OpEd: These are not the Warnings You are Looking For

Can you be a bit more specific about *when* please #Revit?More at: whatrevitwants.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/anothe… twitter.com/lukeyjohnson/s…
— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) December 11, 2012

Strange #Revit error of the day. Has anyone else ever seen this one? pic.twitter.com/lrs6ods4Go
— Boost Your BIM (@BoostYourBIM) September 22, 2013

 

“Lumps of Roofs”

Still not sure if this one was real:

Be careful of those ridiculously large journal files:

New fave’ @AutodeskRevit error message from opening a journal file. I do work on some ‘ridiculously’ large projects. pic.twitter.com/KKjHTwV9be
— Alan Moylan (@BIMgeek) October 17, 2014

‘becasue’

More:

well, this is certainly a new one. ::sigh:: pic.twitter.com/3iApKNH2Xc

— Nancy McClure (@apertedesign) September 22, 2017

Discussion

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Dave Baldacchino
Autodesk must have an internal competition on who comes up with the most bizarre of dialog boxes!
Barrie Sharp
another one here http://revitbuzz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/send-for-men-in-white-coats.html?m=1
Lori Richter
i have just got a note saying

"kilometers per second squared"

Anyone know the problem - I can open it fine but when i send it the architect it says this.
Anonymous
It is probably in a directory that has a symbol in it or a directory that is past 224 charactors long including the filename and extension. Thats what it was when I got a meters per second squared. Have them try saving it to a higher up folder in the structure and see if they have issues.
Scott Crichton
Got sent this one the other day.... "Exception thrown in destructor" Got to love the terminology.....