Dual Installation 2011/2012

[MikeJarosz]

The main project I am working on is in 2011. Because of the multiple consultants on the team, we have all agreed to use 2011. However, we are on subscription and I would like to download the 2012 package.

Can I have a dual installation of 2011 and 2012, and are there any license issues?

[renogreen]

No issues if you are on subscription. I have projects I am using 2011 on for the same reason and other projects I am running 2012.

[Revitaoist]

I highly recommend the dual install, and be weary of upgrading a complex project to 2012, I have had issues and have read posts of others having crash problems after upgrading a 2011 project.

[jsteinhauer]

The main project I am working on is in 2011. Because of the multiple consultants on the team, we have all agreed to use 2011. However, we are on subscription and I would like to download the 2012 package.

Can I have a dual installation of 2011 and 2012, and are there any license issues?

Hey Mike,

I still have 2010 on my machine, although I haven't opened it in months. The only issue may have is that you'll be checking out two licenses. If you're tight on them, you could run out. It's happened here several times. Mostly happens cause someone has 2012 Revit open and 2011 AutoCad. I was told that if you have 2011 Revit & 2011 AutoCad, it only pulls one license. All of my content development is done in the previous release of Revit, so projects still working in that version have access to the content.

I hope this helps,
Jeff S.

[thillhouse]

Mike works fine on our machines, be carefull though, if you double click on the actual Revit project file, it will open the latest Revit program and ask you to upgrade your actual project to 2012... DON"T do it unless everyone agrees to move to 2012 beacuse you cannot go back...Unless you have a backup.

We have a subscription suite program and I actually have a problem that if I clisk on the project file it opens Revit Structure, not Architecture 2012. I'll figure it out one of these days...

Tim

[MikeJarosz]

if you double click on the actual Revit project file, it will open the latest Revit program

Good point. The programmer in me never clicks a file name to open it, but my observation has been that most people do....

[Dimitri Harvalias]

We have a subscription suite program and I actually have a problem that if I clisk on the project file it opens Revit Structure, not Architecture 2012. I'll figure it out one of these days...

Tim

Tim,
Revit will default to the last program installed so if you have one of the design suites it probably did the RST installation last. I believe you can correct this by re-installing RAC but it's better to make sure people open the flavour they want then open files.