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in my office i have the revit 7 and i produce my projects in revit 7, but when i submit my project for engeneer i need convert to revit 6.1 because he only have the latest version.
how i can do that?
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Revit cannot save to previous version. Revit is sold on a subscription basis and everyone should be using the most current version.
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Not a perfect solution but we have tried this - the engineer downloads version 7 with which he can view your files and do a print to screen. He can update his drawings with this.
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I guess I'm still at a loss as to how/why everyone is not using the current version since this is a subscription based product. I guess if you let your subscription expire you get yourself into this situation, but then if your are using Revit because it makes you money why would you let this happen?
Anyway, you can activate a 30 day trial in Revit 7.0 and can save during this trial period. Then you can install 8.0 and activate another 30 day trial. This gets you 60 days of grace to get everyone licensed on the most current version.
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We have a few computers that don't meet the minimum requirements for revit 8. (Or revit 7 for that matter.) We installed 7 on a couple of them, but they are so slow, and rendering is a beast! This may be why some people aren't upgrading. I don't see why Autodesk dosen't make it backwards compatible, even though it is subscription based, especially with the breaking out of systems (building.. etc.) What if we end up with a mec guy who has an earlier version? or an engineer ? Are we just hosed then?
Just my thoughts.
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While I don't work for Autodesk, I understand the reason of not making Revit backward compatible. Basically Revit is a database. In the database world going backward is usually not an option. There are many complex relationships between tables that get broken in the effort to "dummy down" which is what a backwards save would be.
My 2 cents as it comes to slow computers is buy new ones. No business in today's world should ever find themselves not keeping up with technology. Especially true when it comes to the main piece of software you make money from. We buy PC's for around $800 that run Revit 8.0 just fine. I've told the story on this forum before of buying a new Dell for $300 for my mom and installing Revit on it and it runs fine. We won't do business with any consultants that are not current on their technology as this is just a basic function of being in business in the year 2005.
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My point is that if AutoDesk is going to continue with three major releases every year, we can't afford to continually update every PC for every release. If we did, it would no longer be a money maker for us. Most of our computers are not "out of date", and they are fairly current technology. Are you saying that every time a new processor comes out you upgrade? If not, how current is your technology? At what point do you stop and say, well, this P4 2.8 or whatever you have, is no longer current technology? Its not like we are using 386s, 95% of our computers were purchased in the last year, but the other 5%, which are only used two months out of the year, so where is the financial gain in buying new ones? There really isn't any, that money just sits around 10 months out of the year. By the time next summer rolls around, it won't be "current" anymore. I guess we just have different philosophies on that.
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We look at 2 years in the maximum amount of time a PC is used for Revit/ACAD production. This cost amounts to a little over $1.00 per day while the phone sitting on the same desk costs us $1.50 a day.
We think Revit is worth the $1.00 a day in technology costs.
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We operate a little differently whereby the computers are on a cycle.
Every 4 months of so we might be a new computer, then the slowest gets kicked out and so on... saves us having any huge one off costs...
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the problem is:
my engeneer dont have money to upgrade the recent version of revit.
i have no money to pay for another expensive engeneer.
how i can submit my drawings in digital format for the specialites.
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You can always export out of Revit to DWG or DGN. This of course assumes that your engineer has AutoCAD or Microstation software.
Also, on the computer front, like Mr. Spot we too buy new PC's on a regular basis and play the domino game giving the newest to the Revit power users and trickle the old ones down to those still using AutoCAD and our admin people
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