How to know which template has been used for the project?

[kevin_peter]

I am working on central model via collaboration.

how do i know which template has been used for the project?

Can someone help me?

[iainsavage]

I haven't read all of the four pages of this post but surely its very easy to "watermark" your template in some way with:-

• a custom parameter and value?
• a pinned and hidden object near the origin - e.g. model text or a special family?
• a splashscreen which includes the words DO NOT DELETE?
• etc

[RobDraw]

If you had read some of it, you'd realize that it isn't about recording the information. That would be the way to go. This thread is about finding the information after the fact.

[iainsavage]

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@RobDraw  schrieb:

This thread is about finding the information after the fact.

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So its not about finding a solution, its about complaining that Revit doesn't do it?

Does any software (Autocad, Excel, Word) record this data? (don't think so, but I might be wrong).

[Dynamically_Static]

In a nut shell?  Yes?

From a third party reading all this, its about providing firepower to a team leader (PM or HR?)  who wants to be able to say in about 30 seconds of review that a CAD operator is in nonconformance with standard “X” because a serial number doesn’t match. 

They are not asking for the model to be fixed.   It doesn’t appear to matter if their model works despite betting potentially different.   And having their model not work apparently isn’t enough to prove they didn’t follow CAD standards, either.

The only important thing is that serial number.   They neeeeed this number to check a box.

Sounds very government to me.

[garethvalentin]

Stop engaging with that Rob person

This is for everyone. 4 pages comments and half of them is that person being a dick to everyone else. People like that is the reason why the autodesk help forum is so much lower energy comparing with competitiors like Rhino's forum or Blender's community. Autodesk is notorious for ignoring users requests and these Yes Men are only here to waste your time. Thats why industiral leaders in architecture like Zaha, Foster and Heatherwick worte a joint letter years ago demanding some most basic functions in Maya, Revit etc, and was ignored as expected.

Rhino actually has the TemplateFileUsed property in their API after a user reuqested on their forum. If the feature doesn't exist, post here and email the support team, repeatedly, maybe miracle will happen. No need to engage with these people who don't even work for autodesk

[iainsavage]

No need to shout.

@RobDraw hasn't been seen on the forum for a while so he probably won't read your comment, or care.

Almost no-one on this forum works for Autodesk, however that doesn't mean that they can't be of help to other users.

We have no influence over what Autodesk do or do not change in the software but that doesn't mean that we can't help people who are stuck with an issue with the existing software.

Personally though, and its only a personal opinion (and I've also locked horns with @RobDraw several times so I'm not defending him), I think this whole discussion is a bit pointless - you could record which template was used to start the project but 5 minutes later someone could have made substantial changes to settings and content within the project thus making the starting template irrelevant.