Transparent Local File Creation - GUI (v5) *UPDATED*

[dbaldacchino]

Hi all,

I decided to start a new thread since this represents a substantial re-work in the approach when compared to my original version. Although as you'll see, it's still quite faithful to the original concept of using a shortcut to launch your project on a daily basis.

I'm going to keep this short as you can find help on the ins and outs by clicking HERE. Feel free to post comments, questions, suggestions, etc. in this thread. Hope you find it useful!

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#### Version 5 - 04/18/2010

Revit: Tested to work with 2009, 2010 & 2011. Should also work with 2008 but have not tested.
OS: Windows 7 (x64), Vista Enterprise (x64). Should also work on XP (x64) but have not tested.
Features:

1. Centralized application with a GUI that lets you navigate to your Central File Folder and displays projects that comply with the naming convention. You can then right-click and pick an option. It's that simple!
2. Shortcuts are written to the desktop automatically so you only need to interact with the application window once. Next time you need to launch your project's local file, you use the desktop shortcut as in previous versions.
3. Most settings are now customizable within settings.ini.
4. Build checking has been greatly enhanced to only warn those machines working on a project whose build is behind that of the team. The warnings go away automatically once the machine is upgraded.

#### Version 5.1 - 07/21/2013

This has now been upgraded to work with 2013 and 2014 (even OneBox) and it can be downloaded from here as I could not upload it to this forum for some reason!

[peter.wood82285434]

David,
Thanks for providing the update...Our Team members appreciate the creativeness.

[dbaldacchino]

Thanks! The first planned update is to add functionality to launch the worksharing monitor, similar to David Kingham's version...we'll see

[iru69]

Hmmm, I was just giving this a try and ran into a little problem with my version of Revit.

I don't know if you're still under NDA or not, but I'd like a peak at what they've got planned... maybe you could pm me some screen shots or something?

Edit: oh, now I see what's going on there... i'm suppose to add the version number of *revit* to the file name, not the version number of our "project" (we use "version" numbers through various design iterations). i got it now.

[dbaldacchino]

Hahaha 2041? I hope to retire by then

[gtmcleod]

Dave,
Love it! But...
If I have an integrated discipline model, the naming convention can't work. Can there be a line (or lines) added to the settings that identifies the discipline as "X" then gives user option of flavor?
-Gary

[dbaldacchino]

In theory it should. Just edit the ini file to supply the correct paths and give it a shot. I have not tested on 2012 as we're not using it here. Plus with Revit Server, this type of workflow is pretty much obsolete.

[dbaldacchino]

Thanks David. It never fails to have these changes brake things every year . I'll make the update when I get a chance.

[dbaldacchino]

Sorry, have not had the time to update. The dialog is not being dismissed because probably some of the wording in the dialog (which the code detected) changed. I'll see what I can do.

[atbergma]

Despite having no interest in Revit, my wife graciously updated the .ahk script to dismiss the 2012 message (see attachment). I have not tried 2013 yet. I have tested this with Revit Arch 2011, 2012 - and only on Windows 7 pro 64 bit. We did not tackle the "detach" functionality with 2012 either (don't really use it).

I hope this helps someone.