Can't upgrade file from Revit 2021 to Revit 2024 or 2025
How many warnings does the project have now that it has been upgraded to 2024 successfully?
Groups?
Design Options?
In-place families?
DWG imports/links?
Did you see any warnings during prior upgrades as you worked your way up to 2024?
Steve Stafford
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Sorry Steve, I didn't know that warning menu was a feature - See screenshot below - I can't see anything here that would be an issue - Should these ideally all be resolved?
Short answer, the higher the warning count the more likely it will impact your success. If you go to the last warning and expand that and scroll to the bottom you'll see how many total warnings there are. If you expand individual warnings you'll see how numerous they are for each. Less than 100 total shouldn't be too impactful, but >500 it's likely to have an impact and it indicates people are modeling with some bad habits.
- The Attachment warning has been a problem for upgrading projects for me (and binding a project) in the past. It might also depends on how many there are. It is "easy" to resolve, just detach each of them since Revit isn't attaching to the thing it thinks it is supposed to attach to anyway.
- I always encourage people to eliminate warnings that involve area/volume calculations so any wall overlapping walls, room separators overlapping each other or walls, floors overlapping, etc.
- Revit calculates area/volume continuously as you edit the model and interact with elements that affect area/volume. So it's possible that this is affecting the time/evaluation process required to upgrade.
- Eliminate any rooms that are not placed or redundant.
- Those that are not enclosed should have their boundary conditions repaired.
- You have model issues with phasing of elements and there are numbers stair and railing complaints. The stair complaints are usually stair parameter values that don't match the number of risers created in edit sketch mode or the height constraints don't allow for the stair to be consistent with it's rules (riser count size/tread size).
You haven't answered regarding the number of groups, design options, in-place families, DWG imports/links yet. They can make it more difficult to process the upgrade. Also how many levels does your model have and how careful have people been to associate things to the correct level relationships?
Steve Stafford
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See my edited reply, I added some comments at the top and at the bottom.
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