timing revit

[Wagurto]

Is it posible to check the time expended on a revit file? or revit session? something like time command in autocad?

[beegee]

Open the Journal files, located in the Revit folder\Programs\Journals.



The journal files are text files containing a detailed history of all the user actions taken during each Revit session. The first line shows the session start time and the last line shows the session end time.

If you read through these files, you can see when individual project files were opened and closed also.

[Wagurto]

I saw how detail is the journal txt file, but is there a easy way to query just how much time was expend in a project from the begining to the end?
How the rest of you guys are manege your time?
thanks

[aaronrumple]

I use Outlook... not everything I do fits under a CADD program.

[SCShell]

Hi there,

My way is very crude; however, it is effective and simple.
I have my backup timer set to 15 minutes. All I do is look at the number of the latest backup file automatically created and divide by 4 to see the (approx.) total hours spent on any project file. (You have to allow for some error due to breaks and when you save at the end of a session...but it's close!)

Hope this helps
Steve Shell

[Roger Evans]

I use similar crude method to Steve ~ 30 mins ~ NB You need to increase back up save Nos to suit the job ~ I normally set this to a minimum 50 back ups

[bclarch]

I guess that I use the crudest method of all. I keep a post-it notepad by my computer and jot down when I start & stop.

[hand471037]

Wag, I can't remember who makes it, but I seem to recall a software package that allow you to track time spent in any software on the computer.

However, time spent with the Project open doesn't always equal the actual time spent working, but I guess that's the same with the 'time' command in AutoCAD anyways...

But anyhow, you might look on something like Tucows or Cnet for a cheap shareware package, unless you need something better. I remember Quickbooks having a 'timer' software that came with it, that would auto-feed those numbers back into Quickbooks, so maybe your accounting software has something that comes with it. It was cumbersome, though, for you had to now manage this little thing constantly so that you didn't log time to the wrong job.

I Schedule my day in my Palm, and if I don't write it down before I log it afterwords. So it's more or less the post-it method.

[christopher.zoog51272]

Yman's new office software has a timer program that comes with ARCOMANS.

check it out : http://www.creativemtnsoftware.com/arcotimer.html

[Rols]

If you have a Palm Pilot, there are several applications that could do this. I use Timekeeper. I can just select what project I want to log the time to and then it has a built-in running timer. The problem with any of this is that I constantly get interrupted, so it's difficult to calculate actual editing time.