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Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 3:49:14 PM | Library locations

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I need some advice on some issues. I am going to upgrade our network Revit installation to the latest build. And I heard the new version is coming out in April.
One of them is the path to the Imperial Library. By default the path is to the installation directory for the network install, in our case on a server on our network. But, we have been creating our own KGD specific families and keeping them in a different place on the network. When I do an upgrade should I choose to upgrade the Imperial Library, then copy over the KGD specific files and keep everyone's installation pointed to the directory? Or some other method? With an upgrade or two or three a year and new families being created all the time this issue is becoming a big one for me.
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Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 4:51:35 PM | Library Locations

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The title should have been "Library Locations" I forgot to spell check.

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Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 6:04:42 PM | Library locations

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I keep the custom families on the server in their own directory/sub-directory structure.

All development however is done is a secure network folder accesible only by me and archived by Revit version number.  Not all projects get upgraded to the latest release so it is important to keep the prior versions familes hanging around.  For this reason I would archive the standard Revit libraries as well.

Revit does provide a batch utility on the installation CD's to upgrade your families.  New builds of Revit in the same release number [i.e. 9.1] do not install new libraries as they are simply bug fixes.  New releases such as Revit Architecture 2008 will have a different file format and the install is more painful.  Some have done login scripts to copy around the Revit.ini file but with each new release you need to come up with a new master revit.ini file before doing the copy.

 


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Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 8:40:19 PM | Library loactions

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Thanks Tom. I really appreciate the help.

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Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 1:38:26 AM | Library loactions

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well i sure don't know as much as tom-

but the way i do it is just remove the imperial

library out of it's folder and then install

the new revit version and it will fill that folder back

with the it's new library.. also any families i

create i don't like to mix in with the imperial

library..


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Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 5:05:51 AM | Library loactions

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TOM - REVIT ARCHITECTURE 2008....!!?? Whats that all about? Have i missed something, or are you just postulating?

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Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 8:12:08 AM | Library loactions

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Tom is correct.

Autodesk has changed the Name of it's ptoducts.

Revit Building is now Revit Architecture

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