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edelong

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Joined: Sun, Feb 3, 2008
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Using Revit Architecture 2012 (64-bit Windows 7)...

I have this wall which has multiple edits...edited profile, reveals, void extrusions, painted regions, you name it.  Somewhere along the way, this wall has decided that it has had enough.  Now, when I need to try to re-edit the profile, or add a hosted element (louver, in this case), I get this lovely message...

A serious error has occurred. It is strongly recommended that you use Save As to save your work in a new file before continuing.

I can continue without save, but it doesn't perform the profile edit/insert that I want to do.  I can't even delete any of the things I've already done to this wall to try and find the nasty bits without it giving me that message.  Saving the recovery file also doesn't work.

This wall will take hours to rebuild...just so I can stick louvers (a task that would litterally take seconds).

Anyone go through this and come up with any tricks to make the wall work again? 

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itsmyalterego

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Joined: Thu, May 28, 2009
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Heh--yeah...

You've got a corrupted element in there somewhere.  I've had two or three cases like this over the last several years. 

You need to find the offending element, and delete it.  Until you do, nothing which interacts with it--even indirectly--will be editable without crashing and errors. 

First step will be to open your file, and do an audit on it.  (options-open, browse to your central file, check the "audit" box, open.  you won't see the audit option any other way.)  See what this does.  It might fix your issues. 

It may not be the wall itself that is corrupted.  If you want to preserve the wall and save some time, I would suggest copy/pasting it out into space, if you are allowed.  Try to preserve as much work as possible and then track down the problem subtractively. 

For example, I was once trying to put a window in an exterior wall, and I kept getting crashes.  I tracked the problem down to an interior wall that butted up against it.  That corrupted interior wall poisoned my entire exterior wall just from the fact it had a wall join with it. 

If you are allowed to copy the wall, the new instance most likely will not be corrupted. 

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