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I was told by an architect to detach their architectural model before I upgrade my 2012 structural model to 2013. Then the architect said I could reload their 2013 architectural model that they sent me. They said if I left their architectural model attached revit would also try to upgrade their architectural which is over 250 megs and would probably crash the revit program.

I also heard if you upgrade to 2013 you will lose all of the Visibility Graphics settings for very plan and section you previously had created. I have view templates created for all of my plans and a standard one for my sections but is there a setting or method I'm missing so I don't have to apply a view template to very plan and section individually to return it to how it looked prior to the upgrade. 

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Is there a question in there somewhere ?

I would upgrade the main project, let it do it's thing (will take a while). It's going to warn you that you should also upgrade the linked file. Then saveas a new file. It is pain stakingly slow especially with linked files.

Then open the linked file on it's own to upgrade that file. Then go back and re-open the main file again.

I haven't come across loosing visibility graphics in this process ? Perhaps others have.

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DON'T DETACH....Then you would loose every setting you did with the linked model.  I would just make it unavailable (move it) then mange links after converting and reload from.

You will probably hate 13 and the way it does view templates.  I DO!  - they are locked to the view. We have not upgraded a 2012 to 2013 file, only started new so I don't know what upgrade problems you will have.

GOOD LUCK!  I think we will be skipping 2013 for most of our work.

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Us too. Very few 2013 projects here. It's the bad luck '13'.

Straight to 2014. 2013 was half baked in my opinion. Should never have been released. View Templates got us all excited then kicked us in the ding ding.

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  One thing I have found with Revit 2013 right out of the box is that masking regions do not work. They are there but don't mask anything. You need to download and install the latest service pack from Autodesk and they will reappear and mask the objects.

  As a structural engineering firm we are required by the architect that hires us to use the revit version compatable with them. I have projects in construction modeled in Revit 2010 and new projects in 2013. It's good to keep a list of which projects are modeled in which release. DO NOT open a model and walk away from your computer if you are not sure what release the model is created in. If you miss the window that says "THIS IS A ONE TIME UPGRADE..... " and it closes before you return to your desk you might not know you accidentally upgraded a model you didn't want to.

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