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If you Close All Worksets when opening a model on BIM 360 Design, you may get this error (related to Project Info): Can’t edit the element. It was deleted in the Central Model. As you can see, it is r…
If you have gone through a process of saving Central models, and you have forgotten to ‘Synchronize with Central’ before closing them for the first time, you may find that your user has all User Creat…
This has been a ‘best practice’ rule for a while now, but it still applies, even in 2017. You should not mix Revit 2017.1 and 2017.2 on a single Central File. This was flagged by pepar in the BIM Expe…
If you are using multiple instances of Revit, against one Central file, using different ‘pseudo’ usernames, you may have run into trouble because Autodesk single sign on (SSO) always keeps you logged …
Revit Wants you to transmit ‘detached copies’ of Central files for linking into other models. If you ignore this and transmit your Local copy instead, Revit always remembers where that instance of the…
Why does this happen? Because the Bulk File Upgrader doesn’t work if it is trying to upgrade a Local and it can’t find a Central (I believe this is a Revit API thing)… and you may get this error:filen…
From Daniel Gijsbers blog:“if you try to open a revit workshared file (central file) with LT it right away makes a copy of the file with LT added to it’s name. But what is even more surprising it leav…
From rvit:We got everyone else to sync and get out of the model. Then, in the central file’s backup folder, we hunted down the SLOG file… and deleted it. And that works. He opens his local file and al…
Steve’s post recently reminded me of something I have done in the past – using multiple pseudo usernames to access the same Central File in different instances of Revit. Let’s say that you wanted to r…
Daryl Gregoire posted about this recently and I found his post very helpful. In the past, if the checkbox was grayed out to ‘Create New Local’, I would just manually copy the file to my C: drive, appe…