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Opening Revit Best Practice

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amanda.isaacs
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Opening Revit Best Practice

Hello,

 

As a Revit user I have been trained that opening a project from the 'R' is the only way to open the model, but I haven't been told the why, other than using the Start Menu can corrupt the file.

 

There are people at my firm (experienced Revit users) who have never heard that they shouldn't use the start menu to open until they started working with me.  They are not on board with opening projects from the R.  The Revit server is housed in my office, so the people in our other office especially don't want to wait for the longer startup.

 

My Autodesk company told me that using the Start Menu opens the Central File, but the icons are my past local files.  So does opening from the start menu open my local as a central file? 

 

Seems silly that there is a Start Menu at all on Revit since we shouldn't use it.  Also--multiple searches online don't seem to give me the answer to my question. 

 

Thank you in advance,

 

Amanda

 

 

 

I am a "why" girl--so if I don't have a good reason "why not", I might go ahead and do it anyway....

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Sahay_R
als Antwort auf: amanda.isaacs

Opening files through the Start page means that you are opening a Local file, which may not be the most current version of the model - especially if it's a model being accessed by many team members. This has been known to create more problems than it solves.

 

Best workflow - Open>>Project, navigate to the Revit Server, open from Central making sure that Create New Local is checked. I always like to select the option to add a timestamp to the new local rather than overwriting the old one - in case of a problem, you might actually have a 'good' local instead of a corrupt one. Of course, that would mean more frequent cleaning out of your Local folder, but I think it's worth it.


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RobDraw
als Antwort auf: Sahay_R


@rsahayUZMK9 wrote:

Opening files through the Start page means that you are opening a Local file, which may not be the most current version of the model - especially if it's a model being accessed by many team members. This has been known to create more problems than it solves.

 

Best workflow - Open>>Project, navigate to the Revit Server, open from Central making sure that Create New Local is checked. I always like to select the option to add a timestamp to the new local rather than overwriting the old one - in case of a problem, you might actually have a 'good' local instead of a corrupt one. Of course, that would mean more frequent cleaning out of your Local folder, but I think it's worth it.


I might be one of the lucky ones, but, in the nearly ten years I've been using Revit, I can count on one hand the number of times a local file was used to recover a project. In fact, I've had people delete their locals to prevent the corruption from coming back way more times than using them for recovery.

 

it's not a big deal either way as long you are diligent about cleaning out that folder. Just offering a different point of view.

 

Other than that, your explanation was spot on.


Rob

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