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My company has started to have a discussion about what year we want our template to be in. It is currently in 2011, but all of our newer families are being created in 2013 or later, so it seems like a good idea to keep the template in the current year to allow any newly made families to be added immediently. On the other hand, I am worried that we'll get a project in an older version, and won't have a good template to work with for that project.
Does anyone have any experience with upgrading the template/not upgrading the template?
Thanks in Advance!
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Why not just have 1 template for every Revit version you use? We go back to 2013, we have templates for 2013, 2014 and 2015.. all of our families are created in 2013 so that they can continue to be used as we still have some projects where it is needed to use 2013 for clients. Anything created in 2014 or newer cannot be used in 2013.
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We maintain multiple libraries, one for each release. We upgrade our template and all of OUR FAMILIES for each release and save it in the appropriate library. But there are some issues with our practice.
- Upgraded family parameters - You need to pay attention to this because they do/have changed. Using old families may not get you the full benefit. Currently, most of these parameter changes are MEP.
- Some system families have changed. Railings changed from 2011 to 2013/14 with the new top rail. You want to be able to use the new system families because your old railings will not take advantage of the seperate handrail.
- Any families in the upgraded template will still point back to your old library. If you edit a family from a prject, it will want to save in the old library location. We currently have families going back to at least 2008.... but we don't let users write to our libraries. Our BIM managers are the only ones that can do this. I think we need to reload from the current library but that is a lot of work to do with each update.
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WWHub how are you acheiving this "but we don't let users write to our libraries" is it just verbal or do you have a dedicated drive on your server you have "locked" from certain users
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Our library folders have window permissions set for groups. All groups can read but only some groups can write. So everybody can load a family but they can't save edited changes. If it is a valuable change, they have to send it to me for evaluation and I can save it.
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"If it is a valuable change, they have to send it to me for evaluation and I can save it" I've been trying to get my office to do this, it's been like pulling teeth for some reason.
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I am reluctant to maintain multiple templates - We're a small firm (structural only) with just 6 Revit Users (hoping to get up to 9 by the end of the Summer).
I'm learning towards just maintain one template, but having keeping the old versions (along with Archived Families) around.
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You need multiple versions because you don't want to upgrade projects late in the process.
Seperate templates is not a problem to coordinate. Our users don't pick what template from where. Our libraries are all independent and the revir pointers for each release point to the correct library... such as:
\\Revit
\Revit 2013
\Added Resources
\Family Templates <<2013 Family creation pointer
\Libraries
\Imperial Library << 2013 Family pointer
\Metric Library
\Project Templates << 2013 Project template pointer to file in this directory
\Revit 2014
\Added Resources
\Family Templates <<2014 Family creation pointer
\Libraries
\Imperial Library << 2014 Family pointer
\Metric Library
\Project Templates << 2014 Project template pointer to file in this directory
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