Revit 2023: What is the difference between saving a Revit file as .rvt and and .rte?

[JamaL9722060]

Revit 2023: What is the difference between saving a Revit file as .rvt and .rte?

I couldn’t figure out the difference between saving a Revit file as .rvt and .rte

[MetalFingerz]

A .rvt is a project file and a .rte file is a template file

A project file is the default file type for your projects and what should be preferred. A template file is a file that will hold all the default settings of a project and from which you start your project from. The template can be your company's or for example a template by project type or discipline. It prevents you from having to start projects from a previous one and making things messy.

Because of this when creating a new project, you can then select a template as the basis and there are already several ones by default in Revit.

[Mark.Friis]

Technically you could also use Project files rvt as templates, but also template files rte as Project files and template files, but that defeats the intended use of the file formats. The limitations though are that Project files can be saved as templates (like you showed) but templates cant be saved as project files. Both can hold revit families, JSON-files etc.. rte files will show up in the dialog when starting a new project rvt asking for a template to use. This Dialog is limited to only showing rte-files. Upon saving the project rvt using the rte, the default saving option is rvt with the option to swich to rte. I think thats it: rvt cant show up in the templates dialog and rte cant be saved as rvt files, but else they are 99% the same.