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Saving as a "project"

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bng918
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Saving as a "project"

For some reason, when I go to save my Revit house after I have opened it in revit architecture it will not let me "save as project". It will only let me "save as template".

 

Why is this? And is there a way that I can save it as a project? (Also, what is the differnece between saving as a project or tempalte?)

 

FYI: I have had this project open in Revit Structure where it would have been saved, I dont know If this would make a difference though.

 

Thank you for any advice

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LisaDrago
in reply to: bng918

Once a file has been opened and saved as a template - it will forever be recognized as a template file (.rte) by Revit.

The best thing to do to get a project file out of it is to open a new project using that file as the template.

So go to the application menu - new - project. When the dialog box opens navigate to that file and make sure under create new - project is selected.

This will create a new project file (.rvt) will all the information in the template file (.rte)

 

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Message 3 of 9
jgarciacorpus
in reply to: LisaDrago

Thank You this acually worked. When I thought "forever" to be saved as a template. I thought it would never go back to project. But it did.

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mfattahi2
in reply to: LisaDrago

It worked perfectly, Thank you

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pgalliford
in reply to: mfattahi2

Hi, I'm having a similar problem. When I open the template as a project, the save as project is greyed out. This is the same for any of the templates I have on my computer. I can't change the extension in explorer to .rvt and have no problems saving project files, I just cannot save templates as projects.

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bayanodibat1
in reply to: pgalliford

I have the same problem ,if you solve it tell me how please.

Message 7 of 9
RDAOU
in reply to: bayanodibat1

@bayanodibat1 

 

There is a post which was marked as solution back in 2012 which means that solved the problem described in/by the OP.

 

If you are facing the same issue, follow the instructions given in the solution. If it doesn't work then you must be having a different issue and should put it in a new post.

 

 

 

 

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IRE74ESCO
in reply to: bng918

thanks thanks thanks!!!

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