Trouble knowing what version of Revit was used?

[vkelso]

Is there a way to know what version of Revit was used before opening the file?

If we start a project in Revit 2009 we will keep it in that version and do not attempt to convert it to Revit 2010. If you have many projects all in different versions it is difficult to keep track. I have heard that some firms have the version information in the file name.

What if you did not want to do this?

[twiceroadsfool]

Is there a way to know what version of Revit was used before opening the file?

If we start a project in Revit 2009 we will keep it in that version and do not attempt to convert it to Revit 2010. If you have many projects all in different versions it is difficult to keep track. I have heard that some firms have the version information in the file name.

What if you did not want to do this?

I guess if you wanted to you could add file metadata to it right from Windows explorer, though that wont help you when youre in the Revit File Open dialogue.

We upgrade everything, barring an unforseen Consultant conflict. And we name them with the revit version used in the name.

[Alex Page]

We have the revit project in a subdirectory of the project directory - name includes Revit version

ie: .../Project Name/ Revit2009/....

[DaveP]

[quote=vkelso;1083494If you have many projects all in different versions it is difficult to keep track. [/quote]

That's exactly the reason we upgrade every active project.

In the 6 years we've been using Revit, we've upgraded to new versions and upgrade projects as we went. Counting large projects that I've upgraded through multiple versions, I've probably done 200 projects, and I've only had one that I could upgrade. And that one was already corrupt before I tried to upgrade it. I sent that one off to Autodesk Support & they did the upgrade for me.

I just don't' think it's worth the hassle to try to keep multiple versions going. All you need to have happen is someone without the latest version installed, or one person to accidentally open & upgrade a project and you've already blown any (perceived) time saved by keeping an old project in an old version.

After all that, I will add one caveat. This all assumes your PCs are capable of running Revit 2010 or 2011. We did notice that projects upgraded to 2010 used considerably more memory than when they were in 2009.