Now that Revit 2015 has been published, many of our customers are starting to do their early prep work in advance of their official migration to Autodesk Revit 2015. In light of this work, here are a few simple spring cleaning tips for your consideration.
Before You Migrate to Revit 2015...
Family Audits
- Open your office standard family (.RFA) files created in the past one year.
- Launch Ideate Explorer for Revit.
- Review all contents and delete anything that surprises you.*
- Purge and then repeat to ensure nested content has been removed.
Template Audits
- Open your office standard template (.RTE) files.
- Launch Ideate Explorer for Revit.
- Review all contents and delete anything that surprises you.*
- Purge and then repeat to ensure nested content has been removed.
If you don’t have time to review all your new content (hah!) then at least be sure to audit your templates and your Titleblock and Annotation families, as they often have non-standard lines and sometimes an import or unexpected raster image may sneak in.
*Use Ideate Explorer’s built-in audit filter to find the most common culprits.
Upgrading a Revit Project to Version 2015
Important information from Autodesk about the upgrade process, new to 2015.
Autodesk’s best practices when upgrading your project.
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Glynnis Patterson, NCARB
Director of Software Development
Glynnis is a Registered Architect and has worked within the BIM industry since 1998. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, she has worked as an architect, educator, and construction site manager. Glynnis is currently the Director of Software Development Ideate Software, and she continues to work with AEC clients worldwide, developing and consulting on solutions to Building Information Modeling challenges. In her spare time Glynnis does volunteer work for ECLC of New Jersey and Grow it Green Morristown. Follow Glynnis on Twitter.