How to Prevent Model Upgrade?

[kempbillton]

So in our office right now, we are currently utilizing 2016, 2017, AND 2018 for various projects, (we keep our models in the same version year as the client's model).

If you accidentally open a 2016 project from Revit 2018- as you may know, it automatically upgrades the model to 2018 and the only way to "revert" it back to a 2016-friendly state, would be to restore the .rvt file to an earlier date (and of course risk losing work)

My question:

Is there a setting related to file-opening, in which Revit will actually PROMPT YOU to let you know "hey, this is an older version- should I upgrade? PS- this can take like an hour and it will basically swallow your soul and the last shred of your patience for technology. By the way, there's no safe way of undoing this. Sincerely, Autodesk."

If not, I'll post this in the 'Ideas' forum.

[Anonymous]

Put a 17, 18 or 19 in the file name so that people know what version it is.....or in the folder name at least.  

2019 when you select the file it tells you what version it was created in....but as for making it yell at you...find John Pierson at Parallax....he might be able to build you something.  He's the one that created a popup nagging you that you clicked the Model In Place button.

[loboarch · Accepted solution]

There is NOT a way to prevent this from happening. In 2019 you can see the version of the file from file explorer preview. That may prevent some accidental openings, but is by no means 100% foolproof.

There is also a cancel button in the lower left when a file is being upgraded. That was added a number of releases ago, again not foolproof but you can stop the process once started.

[kempbillton]

Only problem with the cancel button is that it doesn't always work. Today was the first time I was able to cancel because I smashed that cancel button as soon as I realized what was happening. Last time this happened, I hesitated and hit cancel maybe 5 seconds into the process and it still upgraded anyway...

[Anonymous]

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@kempbillton wrote:

Only problem with the cancel button is that it doesn't always work. Today was the first time I was able to cancel because I smashed that cancel button as soon as I realized what was happening. Last time this happened, I hesitated and hit cancel maybe 5 seconds into the process and it still upgraded anyway...

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Beware....sometimes clicking it too many times makes Revit angry and it crashes.  Same thing with hitting the ESC key like you were in Autocad.