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As part of a very bad Cloud Model upgrade experience (a story I will tell some other time…) some models failed to upgrade. I was trying to upgrade a file from Revit 2018 to Revit 2022. After upgrading…
You may have experienced this error when upgrading a file to Revit 2018: One or more required internal settings are missing from the model. What do you want to do? Autodesk Support has stated that “In…
Revit gets a new version every year, and every year we theoretically have to upgrade our Revit files. If you are a pro-active BIM Manager, you also have to upgrade a bunch of families and other files.…
RTV Xporter Pro is one of those addins that I can safely recommend to every Revit user. If you ever need to print more than one sheet, or export a model multiple times, or to multiple formats, this to…
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…
EDIT Harry said that the latest version is the one on Autodesk Exchange Apps I previously posted about the ADN file upgrader here. Since then Harry has created a more powerful upgrader for Revit 2014 …
From Revit Randoms – Download the files here: Upgrade_PurgeUnused.zip Extract to a folder of families you want to purge. Copy the first family in your category and paste and rename it in the same fold…
I wanted to grab a list of files so I could check if I had reviewed the contents of some MEP training videos. You can easily do this using a Windows Powershell script. Code example: get-childitem “T:M…
I saw this message from Revit today and I wanted to share it with you: RVG files used to be Revit’s way of saving Groups out, until RVT became the standard for saving Groups. From the message, it look…
Currently includes links to the following pages: Upgrading Revit 2012 (Material ) Libraries Upgrading Material Properties Materials in Upgraded Piping Projects How Pre-2013 Stairs Subcategories are Ma…