2019 Fabrication Database Update

eknight · ‎07-04-2018

We are finding that if you use one of the 2019 products it changes the database so the older version products don't function correctly anymore. The "Setup", "sections", "Process" & "NESTING" files get updated which effect CAD, CAM & EST running older versions. There are also estimate files that get updated.

I thought if I upgraded all employees to 2019 then the problem would be fixed. But I found that when I went back to Revit 2017 for a project we were working on I could no longer add services to the Revit project. The database was not able to read correctly so no additional services could be added.

It is known that when a project is in a specific version of Revit you need to stay in that version when possible and if you are using collaboration for Revit (which I am) you have no choice but to use the correct version of Revit that the project is on. Is anyone else having a similar problem or know of a fix to allow older Revit Fabrication versions to use a newer database? I am resistant to the idea of making a copy of the database just for the older versions of Revit but I don't know what else to do.

ben · ‎07-05-2018

When we were still using Fabrication we used two different databases for material, Autodesk OTB and Building Data. I hated switching back and forth between databases. So every year after we updated the software I always just submitted a help ticket through our Fabrication vender/reseller and he'd do a remote login and merge the two databases for me so I didn't have to switch back and forth between the two and they were all-in-one. It made life so much easier. They might be able to do the same for you and your databases, and it might fix the issue.

Revit lives in the land of perfect and doesn't understand what construction is.