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why not show the revit year on icons and file names

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FrankHolidaytoiling
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why not show the revit year on icons and file names

 

Revit icons dont show the year

you dont know what year a file is

is this marketings fault, the engineers wouldnt do this?

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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

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
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HVAC-Novice
als Antwort auf: FrankHolidaytoiling

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

Revit version: R2025.4
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RDAOU
als Antwort auf: FrankHolidaytoiling

@FrankHolidaytoiling 

 

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

 

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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

 

 

 

 

 

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RSomppi
als Antwort auf: FrankHolidaytoiling


@FrankHolidaytoiling wrote:

 

Revit icons dont show the year

you dont know what year a file is

is this marketings fault?

 


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

 

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

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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 (3rd 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



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