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The following is another great guest post from Product Support Specialist Lance Coffey. We are starting to see a number of users reporting "Data in file is corrupt" error messages after upgrading a project to Revit LT 2014. After some [more...]

This post is from guest contributor, Adam Peter. As a Customer Success Engineer with Autodesk Adam provides data management expertise to Architectural, Engineering and Construction companies around the world. You may perhaps be aware that Vault has an add-in with [more...]

I want to update and elaborate on our previous post: When Adding a Keynote Tag the User Borrows a Sheet Workset For Revit 2013 or earlier there are 2 common scenarios where sheet view worksets can be borrowed working with [more...]

Revit has 4 main categories for worksets: User-Created Families Project Standards Views The only category directly accessible to users (to change the workset assignment) is User-Created. In Revit 2013 or earlier you may occasionally notice a model element (such as [more...]

I’ve included a few tips using some of the new schedules features from Revit 2014: Formatting in your Project Template Formatting for the schedule title \ header \ body section can be added in your Revit template file even if [more...]

We have a previous post that discusses some troubleshooting approaches for missing annotation (from a linked model, in the host model): Using Annotation from Linked Views & Troubleshooting Missing Annotation In a related scenario you could potentially see the annotation [more...]

For Revit 2012 users affected by Microsoft .NET 4.5, a hotfix is now available. Link is included below: Hotfix - Autodesk Revit 2012 - Ribbon behavior due to .Net 4.5 installation This hotfix corrects the behavior of the ribbon panels [more...]

I wanted to describe a crash in Revit 2012 & 2013 that was resolved with the Revit 2013 Update Release 1 \ 2 that some users have reported: The underlying cause is while in the Revit file navigation dialog (such [more...]

For those installing recent optional Windows updates, you may have found that there are changes in Revit (Architecture/MEP/Structure) 2012. If you don't like the new color scheme, you can uninstall the update below, or disable Hardware Acceleration in the Revit [more...]

Our friends over in Autodesk Consulting have been busy helping the Corps create Revit Platform Templates to help increase adoption and improve delivery quality and consistency. I thought it would be great to share this with our readers. Links to [more...]

I wanted to bring up an issue I've seen reported a few times: sometimes Revit 2013 products will crash when accessing the Sun Settings dialog. This will occur if the Sun Setting field for the view is blank in the [more...]

A Hotfix for Revit 2013 has just been posted. It addresses issues in two main areas: Part Family: Prevents data loss during upgrade of families containing specific material parameters. Improves stability and memory usage within graphics display. Improves vector print [more...]

Load as Group gives you the ability to load a Revit project as a group into the current project. The project that you are loading (as a group) may contain various project parameters. Revit determines whether a parameter will come [more...]

If anyone missed the Autodesk FormIt announcement during AU, I thought it would be helpful to organize some resources and links below. Here are some app highlights, including Revit interoperability: Express design ideas with easy-to-use tools: Create forms quickly from [more...]

With the release of Windows 8, we are getting many questions regarding support for Autodesk products in this new environment. We have released the following Knowledge Base Document, which lists the Support Products in Windows 8, along with our policy [more...]

Update 2 is now available for Revit 2013 products, and can be accessed at the following locations: For Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Revit Structure, and Autodesk Revit MEP, you can find the update in the Data & Downloads > Updates [more...]

As the RSN.ini provides the Revit application workstation which Hosts are visible during file navigation, as well as determines which Hosts can be accessed through the Revit Server Administrator from an Admin Server, it is one of the more important [more...]

A few users have reported completely blank ribbon tabs while other tabs appear normal. If this occurs the entire tab may look similar to the image below: If you should run into this behavior there are a few recommendations to [more...]