Revit 2017 Extensions - Freeze drawings

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

This post is about Revit Extensions 2017 module,

we've seen that the "freeze drawings" and "content generator" tools , from miscellaneous tab, aren't available anymore since version 2017.

I've found nothing yet online, just a sentence in the readme : 

"For previously available capabilities of Revit Extensions that are not part of this package, it is recommended to explore the following workflows or improvements:"

but nothing in the list corresponds to any of theses tools

http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/RXE/REX_2016_readme.htm

http://up.autodesk.com/2017/RVT/REX_2017_readme_English.html

Any news?

we're really unable to find anything online, but we're using those tools daily 

Thanks,

[ewano]

Hi,

Would it be possible to upgrade this for 2018?

Thanks,

Ewan

[sflores]

Hi! This worked great on Revit 2017 after using "7-zip" because the other extraction attempt failed. Thank you!

May I ask if you've created one for 2018 that you might share with us? I tried copying and pasting this one into the 2018 folder and when I tried to use it I got an error message in Revit.

[Anonymous]

Hi Guys,

I've extracted the files to the said location, but within Revit 2017 I can not see how to launch the add-in and create a freeze screen drafting view to be populated with 2D annotation. 

Am I missing something, snippy attached and the original web link post 

Thanks in advance guys

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/revit-2017-extensions-freeze-drawings/td-p/6...

[ewano]

Hi @Anonymous

Can you confirm that you have the below files in the specified directory?

Did it prompt you to "Always Load" the new addin?

If not, remove the files. Restart Revit. Close Revit. Copy the files back. Restart Revit and see if it prompts you.

[Anonymous]

Hi Ewano, thanks for the quick reply, yes it did prompt me and the file are placed as per the snippy

Other Add-in when clicked activate but this one does not

[ewano]

Hmm, that is very odd then.

Same files (re-downloaded) same location works on my end.

Try placing it in your user directory for addins.

C:\Users\______\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2017

Have you updated Revit to the current verison?  2017.2.2 

[Anonymous]

Yeh not sure whats happenning, I'm on the latest Revit 2017.2.2 Build.

Drop the file into the sugested file location under my user name.

Still nothing, wonder weather its a fire wall issue or something my other external tool links work fine, I'll throw it back to our IT support.

Is there a way of unistalling the external tool and reinstalling it ?

Thanks for you continued assistance

[Sahay_R]

Awesome. So this means that we are all set for Revit 2017. What about Revit 2018?

[ToanDN]

Copy the files to the 2018 add-ins folder and the tool should work in 2018.

[sflores]

I tried this a while back and copying the same files in the 2018 add-ins folder did not work. Any other suggestions?

[ToanDN]

I copied the files to 2018 add-ins folder and it did not work. I closed 2018 and copied the same files to 2017 add-ins folder, opened 2017 and it worked. I closed 2017 and opened 2018, it gave a nasty warning but it worked. Go figure.

[sflores]

2017 is working but cannot get 2018. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong because I can't seem to get it to work either way. 

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone .... I have followed instructions however I am getting the following error message. I am new to this so any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂

[Anonymous]

.... found a solution for anyone interested:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-live-forum/failed-to-initialize-add-in-quot-autodesk-live-add-i...

[Anonymous]

Its to do with the way the file is extract from the zip that corrupts it, Our IT extracted it they Downloaded and unzipped the addin using 7-zip on my machine and its all worls get, I even copied the extracted file into 2018 Revit add-in folder and works

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot @darwin_valenzuela you are a great observer 😄 to get the point of (7 Zip) ,, it really worked fine with me after your note .

and also thanks a lot @Abdelmawlas for your help.

[davidclark70]

To get this to work in 2018, I followed Glenn96RD8's link and found that I just needed to open the file DRevitFreezeDrawing.addin and change 2017 to 2018 so that it looks for the .dll file in the correct folder location.

I was getting this error

In the file "DRevitFreezeDrawing.addin" I changed 2017 to 2018

[Sahay_R]

Just a word about this add-in - Revit does not do well with DWGs. Anything that involves DWG + Revit may not be advisable.

[JGuptill]

unzipping using a different extractor worked for me as well! Amazing what small little thing makes such a difference. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

How did you do it? I cant even open that file...