"Are You Sure You Want to Upgrade the Model?"

[kempbillton]

In our office, we are currently utilizing 2016, 2017, AND 2018 for various projects, (we keep our models in the same version year as the client's model).

If you accidentally open a 2016 project from Revit 2018- as you may know- it automatically upgrades the model to 2018 and the only way to "revert" it back to a 2016-friendly state, would be to restore the .rvt file to an earlier date (and of course risk losing work). There is a cancel button... But there have been times where I hit it too late, and it upgraded anyway...

I noticed in 2018 & 2019 there is a small preview pane which displays the .rvt file you selected and will light up "2016" in the preview. That's awesome! But in the mornings when the caffeine hasn't kicked in yet- it would be very helpful if a little message could yell at me and say "This file was created with an older version of Revit. Are you sure you want to upgrade the model?"

[zrohlfs23F92]

You do realize you have to save the file or sync with central after you upgrade it right? There are a lot of steps here you have to do blindly.

Step 1 is open a file that hopefully you have named with the version of revit you are using (20##)

Step 2 watch as the file goes through an extra long process of upgrading and miss clicking on the cancel update dialog box.

Step 3 actually save over the previous file you had in your state of panic instead of closing and click the "Do Not Sync Button"