topic Re: How to stop Background Processes? in Revit MEP Forum

How to stop Background Processes?

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:29:58 GMT

Im working on a MEP model with HVAC services and I was working away and tried to save it but a message popped up and saying 'cannot save this document because duct systems are calculating' Ive found the background processes icon on the status bar to monitor them but cannot cancel them or stop them so I can save my work. very frustrating as its been doing this for over 3 hours now.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

Matt__W — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:07:55 GMT

Hi, @Anonymous.Erskine You can try disabling the calculations by navigating to DUCT SYSTEMS > DUCT SYSTEM > and select a system and change its calculation option to OFF (or whichever option suits you best). You'll have to do this for each system

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:15:37 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Have you tried to disable the calculations ?

Click on one of your ducts, go to system, change type and set the calculation to "none"

Regards,

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:08:59 GMT

Thanks @Matt__W @Anonymous

I managed to do as you suggested but the background processes were still running even though the system browser and type properties both showed that my calculations were turned off, I ended up just closing out of revit and restarting it and that seemed to work.

Thanks again

Ryan

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

Matt__W — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:48:52 GMT

@Anonymous Great to hear! Would you mind marking this topic as solved, just so others who may have the same issue in the future can quickly find a solution?

Thanks! And I'm glad we were able to help you.

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

fabiosato — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 02:46:31 GMT

Hello,

Setting to performance instead of none will actually disable all calculations, none keep doing some calcs.

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

cyril — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 08:16:24 GMT

Hello @Anonymous.

The answer posted by @Matt__W didn't solve your problem. Please don't mark it as solution and even the subject as solved as you didn't manage to stop background processes but only whole Revit Process.

This question is good and need a real answer. Please leave it open until we get a real answer. @fabiosato solution unfortunately didn't solve it neither in my case.

Update : I wasn't able to save or synchronise manually but somehow it manages to (auto)save after the defined time interval and synchronise when I ask Revit to close. @Anonymous was is the same for you ? If yes, your answer (what you did) is probably actually the best solution to not lose your work.

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

e.gurrola — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:54:48 GMT

I had the same problem. I was able to save the drawing by going to the file menu and selecting the close option to close the model. This gave me the option to save and sync with central. Stopped the background process instantly.

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 22:57:29 GMT

File then close was the only thing that worked for me to get out of the background calculations, too.

All my systems duct and pipe are set to "None". Switching to Performance did not help.

I was only able to sync to central. My local copy was not saved.

Thanks for this suggestion!

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

info — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:15:54 GMT

Kill Revitworker precess (task manager)

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:45:36 GMT

had the same problem and info's solution worked for me

thanks

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:12:58 GMT

This is what worked for me ^^^^^^^^^^

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:41:27 GMT

Just encountered the same type of problem while editing Ducting and pipings for a Kuwaiti client. Didn't noticed the solution by info, but tried the same process by killing (Fingers crossed) the RevitWorker.exe in Windows Task Manager and it worked. Just now noticed that the solution was already provided by info. Thanks. Kudos.

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

bbirge — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:12:22 GMT

None of the solutions worked for Revit 2018.

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 04:53:08 GMT

For me, it worked in Revit 2018.

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

ALESSANDROSANVITALE6585 — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:13:54 GMT

Hello.

My solution: I searched revitwork.exe and started it. Afterwards I went back to the drawing and magically it didn't give me any more error.

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

YarUnderoaker — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 07:37:52 GMT

Hi. I can't find revitwork.exe for Revit 2020.1 and can't stop background process.

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

ALESSANDROSANVITALE6585 — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 07:42:01 GMT

Hi.
I work with revit 2019. In my case the file is located here: C:\Program
Files\Autodesk\Revit 2019

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

ALESSANDROSANVITALE6585 — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 07:44:18 GMT

Ehm... Sorry. The correct file name is RevitWorker.exe.

Re: How to stop Background Processes?

J_Lorenc — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:22:06 GMT

I found in 2020.1 process RevitWorker.exe, but after killing it, main Revit froze completely and must kill it without saving.