Working with Revit 2022 in Inventor 2024

[brian]

Currently I'm working on a project that uses Revit 2022. Previously I tried importing theses files into Inventor 2023 however Inventor insisted that project needed to upgrade to the later version, yeah right that's going to happen at the request of a contractor at the bottom of the food chain. Moving on, still the same project has anyone experience importing a Revit 2022 file into Inventor 2024.

How did it go any issues and where you able to export it back as a Revit 2022 for integration back into the project model?

[James_Willo]

Hi Brian, there should be an option to 'open anyway.'

It'll open, but it'll take longer to open than if you upgrade it first. 

This also means that every time you do some kind of edit/update on it it'll take a lot longer because we are opening a file that doesn't match the year of the translator. 

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Brian,

At the moment, to use Inventor Revit Interop workflow, the two products have to be on the same release. If they are not, the importing end has to be on a newer release, not the other way around.

Many thanks!

[brian]

Hi

Hence would I be right to assume that I could not export the rvt back in
2022 and that because the project is working in revit 2022 they would not
be able to import a 2024 rvt into the project?

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Brian,

Yes, that is correct. As I mentioned earlier, the importing end has to be the same or newer version. In your case, 2022 would not be able to open 2024 files.

Many thanks!

[brian]

Thanks, not the answer I was wanting however not surprised.

[brian]

Thanks, sounds a typical mess solution to an Autodesk problem and a
productivity killer.

[James_Willo · Accepted solution]

Opening an older version of revit in inventor won't migrate it though, you have to do that yourself using revit. 

So you can click the 'open anyway' to use rvt 2022 in inventor 2023 or 2024 and the original rvt file will stay as 2022. Depending on the size though, this can take longer as it doesn't match the translator year.

If revit <> inventor workflows are interesting to you, please join the autodesk feedback community as we are working on a few things at the moment and would love your feedback.

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