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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…
Ok, two unrelated issues here, but both are along the lines of “weird stuff that happens in Revit that can be fixed but doesn’t always make sense”. If you use Revit long enough, you will certainly com…
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 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…
In the past, a workflow was available in which you could rename older RFT files to RFA, then upgrade them to the most recent version of Revit (perhaps using a batch upgrade tool), then rename back to …
This happened to me recently on a very big workshared project. Turning off the Crop of the view made the links reappear, but when I zoomed in, they disappeared again! The solution? Turn off the Far Cl…