Upgrading Models from 2016 to 2018

[Anonymous]

One of our major clients has asked that we upgrade all of the models we have done over the past several years to Revit 2018 (500+ models). We see this as a major tasks and I was wondering if anyone has done something similar and could supply some advise.

Thanks. 

[loboarch · Accepted solution]

This post at another forum provides a Dynamo script for doing this.

https://www.revitforum.org/dynamo-bim/36261-bulk-upgrade-families.html#post193521

It is about upgrading family files, but there is no reason why it would not work for project files. It just looks for files in a folder, opens them and closes them one at a time.  You should be able to run it in 2018 and point it towards a folder containing the project files you need upgraded.

[a_meteni · Accepted solution]

Also etransmit may be an option. But make sure to archive everything before upgrading.
Good luck

[kadmonkee]

archive each model in its Native version prior to upgrading.

upgrade them sequentially. 2016-2017-2018 don't skip versions.

too many revisions and service packs to skip over will cause issues.

all associated links will need the same treatment (AutoCAD and Revit 2018 is a different file extension [ .dwg ] in 2018 )

2018 is not yet stable

check this link for available updates

Revit 2018 updates

[ckilger12]

 so I know Autodesk recommends upgrading at each year increment.   MY question is what if we have an older job that was archived and created in lets say Revit 2014.....now I have 2019 and according to subscription as it works now my earliest version I have access to is Revit 2016.  Now in order for me to upgrade and I am skipping 2015...in some cases more. ( I have models created and archived in 2012 and 2013 we may need to use for future work).  Do we take our chances and go from the created to the earliest version we have, OR or does someone have to sit every 3 years and upgrade every model on their database to the latest version they have available....seems silly for clients that have 500+ models to basically have a full time person that has to upgrade this every 3 years 

[RobDraw · Accepted solution]

That seems like an awful lot of projects to be active for that amount of time. Most projects I've worked on stay on the version that they started with, unless we are just upgrading to the latest release per client instructions. But, yeah, if a companies workload requires that many projects to be upgraded just to keep up with the oldest version available for use per subscription they would require someone to put the time into doing it.