Two revit's open simultaneously or Colored tabs for separate projects

[Anonymous]

Good morning Revit forums, hope everyone is having a good day!

Like most firms, our firm is working on a master file to copy details form to help make the Construction Drawing process faster and more uniform.

This process requires to projects to open at once, one to copy from and one to paste into. 

Is there a way to have two Revit's open so the tabs for each project do not mix? 
or
Is there a way to give tab's colors that distinguish "project 1's tabs" from "project 2's tabs"?

Additionally having a space to sperate open projects tabs from another could be another solution. 

The purpose of keeping the tab separate would be to give myself peace of mind when closing my projects. I typically do not want to save changes to the master file if I am just stealing details for a new project but I always lose tract of project because the project/view tabs are all identical. 

For example: I start my day on a new project, I have the master file and the new project open, I taking legends and details from the master file and into the new file, once completed I attempt to the master file completely but one tab is open. I reach the end of my day, go to save and close project and I receive a warning; "do you want to save the changes to master file?" Darn, have I made changes that I want to save or not,  I though I closed it all when I was done.

[martijn_pater]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Is there a way to give tab's colors that distinguish "project 1's tabs" from "project 2's tabs"?

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I like this idea, not possible as far as i know so post it to ideas forum. And yes, you could open two Revits do it all the time with linked files (without unloading).

[Anonymous]

Martijn.pater, can you elaborate how you can have two Revits open at once? Every way I can think of to open a Revit project, if I already have a Revit project open, when I open the second project it always opens in the same Revit window and then I am into the tabs issue previously stated. 

[martijn_pater · Accepted solution]

What do you mean? You just start Revit twice... don't double-click the projectfiles to open projects from a folder, if that's what you're doing... so instead open them from Revit...

[Anonymous]

That worked for me, thank you! 

[jmangis]

Greetings programs,
I too, have dreamed about Revit having colored tabs as a solution.
Opening Revit twice makes it hard to copy/paste data; and isn't it a drain on PC recourses?

I cant tell you how often I have to update the same plans at several addresses so I can PDF & upload them to the field. In Revit, I cant tell which sheet goes with which file till I select it and look at the top of the screen with my trifocals.  If only I could "[/] enable" a color scheme for 1st file opened, 2nd file, 3rd... "that'd be great".

Forward this to whoever needs to see it, I don't need credit. The functionality would be reward enough.
JM

[admaecc211151]

I need that too. And for more, i hope that when i drag a tab to outside, i can insert it back for every position, Not just insert to first.

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@jmangis wrote:

Greetings programs,
I too, have dreamed about Revit having colored tabs as a solution.
Opening Revit twice makes it hard to copy/paste data; and isn't it a drain on PC recourses?

I cant tell you how often I have to update the same plans at several addresses so I can PDF & upload them to the field. In Revit, I cant tell which sheet goes with which file till I select it and look at the top of the screen with my trifocals.  If only I could "[/] enable" a color scheme for 1st file opened, 2nd file, 3rd... "that'd be great".

Forward this to whoever needs to see it, I don't need credit. The functionality would be reward enough.
JM

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PyRevit has this option. Note that Revit LT doesn't support addons.

[rprosserNFAKZ]

If you have the PyRevit plug in you can set the tabs to be different colors. (See attached)