opening an old version .rvt file

[derschafer]

I have received an old .rvt file. I wish to open it; however, I cannot. I apologize in advance for my ignorance here. I receive this message:

Revit-UnsupportedVersionOlder The file was saved in an old version of Revit which we don't support.Please upgrade this project to Revit 2015 or later.

If I cannot open the file, how can I save it in an updated version?

Thank you in advance for any help.

[jeremy_tammik]

Unfortunately, this is not the best place to ask such a question.

Afaict, you are not doing anything programmatically yourself using the Revit API, just using the standard Revit user interface.

So, you cannot expect an answer to a question such as yours relating to product setup, optimisation, usage or other end user support issues here.

You should try one of the non-API Revit product support discussion forums instead for that:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/this-forum-is-for-revit-api-programming-questions-not...

The people there are much better equipped to address this topic than us programming nerds.

Even if you were doing anything programmatically, please be aware that the Revit API hardly ever supports any functionality that is not also available in the user interface.

T Revit API generally only supports functionality that is also available in the end user interface.

Therefore, if the UI does not support this, the API will probably not do so either.

So, it will always help to research the optimal manual approach to a solution first, before attacking the task programmatically.

I hope this clarifies.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

Best regards,

Jeremy