topic Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress in Revit Structure Forum

Trying to stop the background calculations progress

mustafa.hamoodi — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:32:21 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I am working in a Structural Revit and have some foundations, Beams, Channels, Bolts and nuts. During my work I tried to save, or another command like "Save, Save As, Copy, Move, and so", but it tells me you can not because there is background calculations are in progress. I don't have any calculations as shown in the below pictures.

Can anyone help me for that? I don't to close the project and start again from the beginning.

My Best Regards,

Mustafa Al-Obaidi

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

Ahmed_M_Heteba — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 20:11:38 GMT

check this article : https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-disable-background-calculations-in-Revit.html

and this old thread : https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-mep-forum/how-to-stop-background-processes/td-p/7185393

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

i21021445BDTG5 — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 14:49:44 GMT

The same problem as above, and the information about the solution didn't solve my problem.

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

roethbrad — Thu, 25 May 2023 13:35:18 GMT

Same here

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

alex3P3MS — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 01:04:55 GMT

i had this issue and changing the duct / pipe calc options didn't help (although i think it is very handy going forward) actually being able to save the file or continue usings a number of commands.

What did work for me was creating a workset (my file did not have worksets) which activated an option to create a recovery file, and this removed the issue allowing the file to save. Not sure how this might assist on workshared files but thought i'd post as it may help someone!

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

jennifer — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:01:31 GMT

This worked for me as well! Thank you!

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

mkennedy — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 14:14:25 GMT

I just experienced the same issue in Revit 2024. I ended up clicking undo to get back to where I had deleted a steel plate that I had just copied and modified, then I just used hide element instead of delete. Guess I won't bother using the steel tab anymore. Frustrating.

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

jennifer — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 03:47:43 GMT

I just had this issue AGAIN in a workshared model - so the original workaround didn't work, but this workaround did, where I had to undo alot of stuff until i got a message saying 'you haven't saved in a while' - now it works again so thank you.... AGAIN

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

roethbrad — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:32:06 GMT

I had same thing again in 2024. Seems it happens when I make plates with anchor bolts to follow. Is anyone going to address this time consuming and tedious issue?

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

mkuWQCXD — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:00:00 GMT

I faced the same issue while working with structural connections. For me following worked: delete connections, perform undo option to action before connection and redo to recent action

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

roethbrad — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:48:12 GMT

I found the same fix. I guess my thoughts are it should work without having to backtrack. Sometimes you can get pretty deep (meaning lots of other work) and you hope the undo will fall back that far.

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

Homsey-CCH — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:51:15 GMT

Editing some steel caused the problem. Creating a workset caused it to crash, but it let me save a recovery file, which can now be saved and printed. (it is not a work-shared file)

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

fateme96moradi — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:19:21 GMT

It's work thank you

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

bungaazani11 — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 09:38:57 GMT

thankssss u help mee😭

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

egitim01 — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:42:19 GMT

disgust topic it makes slower

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

bongaSG6UZ — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:40:20 GMT

For me it was from a linked structural model, so what worked was unlinking and then relinking the model.

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

kristian_holstad — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:47:18 GMT

Go to: Collabroate -> Workset -> Ok -> You will get a Error, press "Yes".

After you save a recoverfile you can save it normal.

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

PSmart17 — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:56:25 GMT

Surprised they have still not fixed this one. If none of the suggestions here work for anyone, this thread has a few more ways people have used previously.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-structure-forum/cannot-perform-save-this-document-command-because-background/td-p/11158782

For me it seemed that the quickest option was to open a blank file which broke it out of the background process and meant I didnt have to undo work etc.

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

dwatkinsGUUWT — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:19:01 GMT

Thank you opening a blank file worked for me immediately. Happy I scrolled down to this answer

Re: Trying to stop the background calculations progress

dangtrungkien31 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 17:29:48 GMT

Very useful- Just open new blank project