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Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:11:24 PM | Revit 2013 Revit Families Prior to Revit 8.1

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I cannot seem to download and open alot of the stuff that is posted on this site, because I am using Revit 2013 maybe?  A message comes up,  "cannot open because it was saved in a version of Revit prior to 8.1.

Am I doing something wrong?  Is there a program that will open these files and upgrade them to a later version?

 

 

 


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Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:14:38 AM | Revit 2013 Revit Families Prior to Revit 8.1

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You can open any earlier version of Revit families or projects and they will upgrade/convert to the release you are in.

But ... you said prior to 8.1.  What objects are you trying to use.  Maybe something very - very early on our site has a problem and if so, we need to know what.


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Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:09:25 AM | Revit 2013 Revit Families Prior to Revit 8.1

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I tried opening "exit sign symbol".  I tried both dragging, and also opening from within Revit.  This happens quite often.  Ive used other versions of Revit and never had this problem.  Last version I used was Revit 2011 and Revit 2012 full version.  I am now using Revit LT 2013.

 

Here is a screen shot of the objects i downloaded and the message when i tried to open:



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Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:01:45 AM | Revit 2013 Revit Families Prior to Revit 8.1

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Opens fine for me in 2013.  Maybe the LT version has restrictions.

 

http://www.revitcity.com/downloads.php?action=view&object_id=1122

 

Apparently this is a restriction in 2013 LT.  I read in a discussion that Autodesk was trying to fix this in a service pack.  Do you have the service packs installed?  If not do that and see if they have fixed the problem.



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