Revit Links

[cncash]

It would be nice if links could have a timestamp to know when the link was last updated. 

Currently, when we have changes in a linked model, we don't know if revit automatically updated things or if we need to manually reload so we do a manual reload to ensure the latest is loaded. If there were a timestamp, it would help reduce these load times, especially on larger projects. 

[ramoncunill]

your title doesn't push you to read the post, it's generic and imprecise

it is a pitty cause the idea is very good

[Mike.FORM]

I agree this would be great to have.

I also agree you should make you Idea Title more descriptive. Even just having "Revit Link Time Stamps" would be much more beneficial.

[cncash]

I am unable to edit the title. I keep getting errors.

[MiWolff]

Revit does reload every Revit file link once a file with links is opened for editing. Is there a way to stop Revit from doing that and keep the linked file as it was when the link was first established? Other than that I think the last reloaded time stamp would be the host's file open time stamp.

[cncash]

I disagree about Revit links reloading once a file is opened. It's kind of a mystery right now of when it reloads and when it doesn't. It may depend on the file size possibly but we definitely don't receive updates each time we open a file without manually reloading. 

I agree, it would be great if the files would kind of have a "cache" memory if that would help files open faster! I'm not sure what it actually does right now since it doesn't reload but also takes a very long time to open sometimes.