Bug in Forge

068335643 — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 08:53:21 GMT

Hello everyone 🖐️ Forge has a bug with which I need help... Here is the situation:
1) I create a wall in Revit. I save the file and exit.
2) I copy this revit file in the explorer, I go into the update and edit the wall. After saving changes.
3) I create a "central" file where I throw 2 links to the wall.
4) I load the "Central" file in the Viewer(Forge) and the walls, which are of different sizes, have dimensions that require measurement .... It seems to me that this is due to the unique ID . Who faced this? how to live with it? how can this be solved? And how does Forge think in general?

https://autode.sk/336c9OE

Re: Bug in Forge

jeremy_tammik — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 16:35:09 GMT

If this is a Forge problem, the best place to report and discuss it is via the official Forge help channels:

https://forge.autodesk.com/en/support/get-help

However, it sound more to me as if you are creating confusion with what you call "link" and "update".

Oh, maybe I can guess what the problem is.

You say, I copy this Revit file in the explorer, I go into the update and edit the wall.

Please note that Revit is used to create a BIM, a building information model. To support this, all Revit database elements have a unique id. This id is used to identify them uniquely across the entire universe. When you create a wall, it is assigned a unique id. If you copy that model, the copy contains the same wall with the same unique id. Therefore, the copy is identical with the original, and both copies of the wall represent the same real-life and also BIM wall.

I would recommend that you avoid the workflow that you describe, and I assume that other BIM designers avoid it as well.

Of course, that is the easy way to avoid this problem and KISS, keep life simple:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

A surprising number of people prefer and even insist on complicated solutions instead, or even no solution at all.

🙂

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