why not show the revit year on icons and file names

[FrankHolidaytoiling]

Revit icons dont show the year

you dont know what year a file is

is this marketings fault, the engineers wouldnt do this?

[EATREVITPOOPCAD]

it has been a mystery for many millennia. Most offices have a prefix (or suffix) in the file name as part of the office standards to avoid unnecessary upgrading. 

Example: "R22_MyCoolProject.rvt" (for Revit 2022 file) or "MyCoolProject_R2021.rvt" (for Revit 2021 file)

Also opinion: you think too highly of engineers

[HVAC-Novice]

With almost everyone on subscription and paying for the newest version, they probably didn't expect that people still use older versions. 

[RDAOU]

@FrankHolidaytoiling 

When you open the files via the File Menu, you should see the Version under the preview 

        

If you are opening the files using double click in Windows Explorer, you would need to go and ask windows to incorporate the version thumbnail

Otherwise...

1. do what @EATREVITPOOPCAD suggested and add the version as a Prefix or a suffix to your File naming convention
2. Vote the idea which Paul Aubin started on the following link https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/display-revit-version-in-windows-explorer/idi-p/10800242

[RSomppi]

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@FrankHolidaytoiling wrote:

Revit icons dont show the year

you dont know what year a file is

is this marketings fault?

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Not in the icon but the information is available when opened through Revit.

Not sure how you could get marketing from something like  this.

[Lance.Coffey]

When working with multiple versions of Revit, my workflow/recommendation (like others) is to open the Revit version you want to work with, and then open models through the open dialog.

• To make accessing the models easier, you can add the project folder(s) to Places.
• For one-off path usage, I copy the address from Explorer, then paste into the open dialog to quickly get to the model location.

On the flipside, if you’ve got a Revit model and you don’t what version it is, but don't want to upgrade the model you can:

• Use the latest version of Revit (currently 2022) to find what version the model is (in the Open dialog), then switch to that version of Revit and open it.
• Use the Revit Properties feature from the (3^rd party) CTC BIM Project Suite add-in to find the version, and open in that version of Revit.

If you would like to see the model version available in Windows, please vote up the following Revit Idea: Display Revit version in Windows Explorer

Also, here is another Revit Idea that may better solve the issue you are looking to address (opening in the right version): Auto open correct version of Revit