Model "Generating Graphics for 3D view" for all 3D views when using Data Exchange

[ddcTKX9X]

Hi All,

Apologies if this is posted somewhere else, or a known issue, but I am having some issues with Revit 2024 and the Data Exchanger. Every time I try to create a Data Exchange, or Delete a Data Exchange already created it triggers a series of "Generating graphics for 3D view" for every view in the model, given we probably have 100 3D views and it takes a minute to generate each view it takes hours for it to cycle through. Making this process not necessarily faster than the typical import/export process previously used. 

Just to give some background. 

This project started in Revit 2020, has been upgraded to Revit 2022 and has been working fine, and has now been upgraded to Revit 2024. Its unclear whether the issue is related simply to the Revit 2024 upgrade, or the Data Exchange add-in, as I have downloaded 2024 for the purposes of testing these Data Exchange add-ins. 

As a potential workaround - I have deleted as many of the 3D views from the model as possible, to minimize this "Generating graphics" time. But if I am unable to solve this I think I may have to go back to the old ways in essence of time. 

Any ideas related to this? Have you run into anything like this? Either before using the Data Exchange or currently?

Best regards,

Drew

[Tobias_Hathorn]

Ouch. Definitely a bug - and customers should not have to remove views in order to workaround - thanks for bringing to our attention!

This reminds me of a similar sounding issue we encountered and fixed - basically if you opened your Revit file, and the first action you did was to launch the Data Exchange plug-in, then you'd trigger some odd warnings. So a simple fix was to perform some trivial actions like draw and delete a wall, then launch the connector - no warnings. Can you try this? Also if possible - please share a 'log' file for your session. These can be found in the menu from the info button on the Revit connector!

In the mean time, I'll reach to the development team and see what advice they have! 

[ddcTKX9X]

Hi Tobias, 

Thanks for replying so quickly. Currently am in the cycling process again, just to see whether if when its done I can get something to use in Rhino. Right now it appears to do a full 3D view regeneration of graphics before it creates the Data Exchange session, then when the Data Exchange populates into the Data Exchange window it goes through the cycle all over again. Seems like it happens whenever anything changes within the Revit Data Exchange Window (creation, deletion, update, anything). 

It appears to have made it through the cycle of views and successfully created the data exchange. Lets see if I can now open it in Rhino. Keep me posted about what the Dev team says!

Best regards,

Drew

[Tobias_Hathorn]

Dev team can reproduce the issue - so we'll start working to resolve it and hopefully get a fix out quickly. Thanks for alerting us to the bug! Please let us know how it goes loading data exchange to Rhino! Happy to help on that side of your workflow too.

[ddcTKX9X]

Hi Tobias, 

Thanks again for taking a look at this. I was, in our test file, able to delete some of the views to minimze the generating graphics cycle time, and was able to successfully create a data exchange and open in rhino. The only issue I found was that nested families were not displaying, however that is another issue which it appears McNeel Dev team is working on here. 

https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-72439

But I am excited to see how this folds into our actual day to day workflows internally and externally and see what sorts of new improvements I can find for our current Rhino to Revit and back again workflows.

Thank you for creating this!

If possible, can you reply again once you hear anything back from the Dev team?

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Best regards,

Drew

[Tobias_Hathorn]

Sure thing! Happy Friday - and love the enthusiasm you're bringing to experimenting with Data Exchanges! Dev team is still working on the issue - it appears like we're going to push our next version of the connectors before we can resolve it - so I'm not sure whether there will be a 'fast fix' here. But it will be resolved.

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[ddcTKX9X]

Hi Tobias,

Thanks for the update, in the meantime I will keep trying to test it when I have time.

Best regards,

Drew

[Tobias_Hathorn · Accepted solution]

Good news - this regenerating views bug has been fixed - and the next update to the Revit connectors (2023 and 2024) will have the fix! 

[ddcTKX9X]

Hi Tobias thank you so much. I am very excited to test this out further,
it’s already taken care of many annoying translation issues!

Best regards,

Drew