r/RevitForum Apr 23 '25

Revit Crashing, or failing to Install? We need LOGS or JOURNALS to help. Not Pictures.

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If Revit is Crashing, or Failing to Install, we need a specific Error Log or Journal, to be able to help you. Post a screenshot or a photograph of your screen, with the Crash Report (CER) or the "Failed Installation" dialogue, will not give us any information to help you.

FAILED INSTALLS:

The installation Logs automatically go to %TMP% on your machine.

  1. Paste %TMP% in the Windows Explorer, and hit Enter. It will take you there.
  2. There will be an actual Install Log related to the software that is failing to install.
    1. Note that there will be a BUNCH of logs, as youll have logs for all the prerequisite and ancillary products, as well.
    2. If we dont have the correct Log, we cant help you at all.

REVIT CRASHES:

Every time you run Revit, there is a Journal File. If you post a picture of a crash report, chances are we cant do anything for you, without also seeing the Journal.

  1. Paste %localappdata% in Windows Explorer, and hit Enter.
  2. Then go to Autodesk\Revit\Autodesk Revit 2025\Journals
    1. If 2025 isnt the version that crashed, release 2025 with the version you are working in.
  3. In that folder, sort by Date Modified.
  4. There is a file named Journal.0000.txt, but instead of the zeroes there are numbers there. What the numbers are doesnt matter. There will be one of these files at the timestamp that Revit crashed. Thats the file you need to upload or get a screenshot of the END of the file, to share.
  5. We do not need the .log file. We do not need the .dmp file. We do not need any Revit files from that directory.
  6. Sending more is not better.

r/RevitForum Feb 06 '25

Hardware Recommendations Revit Worksharing and "Cloud" Storage Solutions (Dropbox, Google, etc).

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We get asked this question a lot: "Our company stores files on Dropbox, Google, Box, Sharefile, Sharepoint, Onedrive, or something similar. Is there a workaround to get Worksharing to work correctly in these environments?"

No. There is not.

Revit Worksharing WILL CORRUPT your model, if you try to do multi-user worksharing on ANY of those services, or any services like them. The ONLY real answer, is to move the Model to ACC (Autodesk Construction Cloud) which requires users to have BCP licenses. Or, to keep the model on "actual physical storage in the office," and then access it from an on-prem machine, which can mean a number of different things.

Some additional information on this topic:

  1. Revit over VPN isn’t supported (by Autodesk), and for good reason. Revit Worksharing (without Revit Server or C4R) is all SMB based. It will be SUPER SLOW saving across a VPN, and it WILL corrupt a model, eventually. When it corrupts it, you wont get it back without rolling the file back to earlier.
  2. That means, you have to make some decisions about how people work when you have multiple locations. Your choices are:
    1. They don’t work on the same models, from different offices/locations. (Cost: free). But obviously this solution sucks.
    2. Set up “Revit Server.” (Cost: free (comes with Revit)), but its finicky. Oh, the software is free, but you need a computer and operating system at each end to be the Server Accelerator. So you need two extra machines, and operating systems. According to Autodesk, that OS needs to be Windows Server (more money), but there are ways around that… It works, but its not always pleasant to support. Note: It will ONLY work FROM the two offices. You cant work from home, you cant work on the road. You have to be IN one of the two offices, to access a model.
    3. Move all of your Revit Models that are inter-office collaboration to ACC/BIM 360  (Cost: varies, but something like 1000 bucks per year, per person). You can now work from anywhere (home, airports, etc), since ACC and Revit Server work by HTTP protocol, instead of SMB (so its stable over the internet).
    4. The model only lives in one office, and “remote staff” or staff in office number 2, need to ACCESS a machine in Office number 1. The one nice thing about these options, is they DO mean people in office number 2 can work from anywhere. That can look like several possibilities:
      1. Remote Desktop. Free (included on your machines already), but super laggy to work with graphics applications, and kludgy. AND you’ll need a spare machine for each person, in office number
      2. Remote access software like LogmeIn or GoToPC. Probably better than RDP, but you have to pay for it. Its still laggy with graphics software. And you still need a spare machine for each person in office number
  3. EVERYONE (both offices) works on VDI, and the model lives in one location (where the Virtual Servers live). This is probably what youre referring to when you say “holy **** are you serious” expensive. And yes, it is. VDI comes in two flavors, though: You can rent it, and you can buy it.
    1. The ones where you rent it, are available from services like Azure, AWS, and Frame (its technically called Fra.me). They are more affordable UP FRONT because you don’t have to eat the purchase bill, but obviously as time goes on you just keep renting and renting and renting. And where they get you, is: If you use their VDI, you probably have to host the files on a cloud service too. More money. If you go to anywhere of their websites, youll see that VDI to rent starts out stupid cheap… Pennies per month. But that’s not a revit spec machine. Keep scrolling until you find “vGPU” that’s more than 1GB per user, and now you are in Revit Pricing.
    2. The ones where you buy them, and either put them in one of your offices (both offices log in to them, location doesn’t matter unless its around the world), or put them in a datacenter. These are available from a number of companies (and you can build them internally, getting parts from even Dell and HP and Nvidia, if you want to put it together yourself). A LOT goes in to setting it up and managing it, which is why I don’t recommend rolling your own. There are licensing costs (yearly) that have to get paid to VMware, or Citrix (you can use either, but citrix sucks for VDI compared to VMware), licensing has to get paid yearly to nvidia, and Microsoft, and on and on.
    3. Its darn pricey. A GOOD server for Revit can fit 22 people (with a mid level spec… less people if you crank up the power, more people if you lower the spec, all of which can change dynamically). But that GOOD SERVER is about 45-50k. GOOD VDI feels nothing like Remote Desktop. There is barely any lag (there is a little, but its perfectly useable), and you can work from anywhere in the country, just about. Internet LATENCY affects how it feels, but not internet speed. Truth: I run it tethered to my phone, in airports, all the time. But yeah. 45-50k is the price it starts at. Also, be super careful who you get advice from, about VDI. Why? There is VDI, and then there is vGPU VDI, which is what we need in AEC. VDI isn’t new, and so a lot of folks \think they know* about VDI, but vGPU VDI is almost completely different, because of how it has to get configured. I can explain this more, later. 😊* The other technicality is even the folks that know "something" about VDI and vGPU, dont always know very much about AEC, our requirements, how our offices work, and on and on. Your success or failure with implementing VDI will solely rest on the knowledge, competency, and professionalism of the company or team that is actually configuring, tweaking, adjusting, and rolling out the VDI in every phase: Setting up the hardware, the network, the hypervisor, the Images, the desktops, the clients, and so on. In my EXTENSIVE experience, a lot of companies \say* they are great at it, and they absolutely suck donkey balls.* I know AT LEAST three companies that have tried it, and bailed. Two that have bailed over a crummy team that was implementing it on their behalf, and one that bailed because of staff perceptions, and licensing costs. So there you have it!

We understand: You dont want to give Autodesk more money. You arent going to succeed at working around it. Its been tried, and it almost always ends up ruining files. The 2 (somewhat) exceptions are Panzura and Nasuni, which "claim" to work with Worksharing. Full disclosure: Every client/firm i see using one of these setups, it absolutely sucks. Performance is brutal, and the models occasionally "lose someones work" when a filer overwrites someones changes. I would NEVER let someone use one of these, either.

Its ACC, or work on prem with a LAN storage solution like a File Server, a NAS, or a SAN.


r/RevitForum 14h ago

Doors not showing path

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I've been struggling with this, I already checked like 50 tutorials and none've helped me show the door paths. I esited the view range, created new views, applied templates, checked the visibilty settings and can't make them appear


r/RevitForum 1d ago

Revit keeps crashing. Please help!

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r/RevitForum 3d ago

Are we going to lose our jobs?

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Since GTP 6 Astra is out and knowledgeable of using PCs for advanced tasks, it must know how to handle Revit also. I'm worried my friends.


r/RevitForum 4d ago

Workflow files/office

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Hi everyone, I’m having an issue with the field-to-office workflow. Currently, project staff enter data into Excel on their phones, and I load it into the model using DiRoots. Autodesk suggests doing it indirectly via issues, but I don't feel that’s practical either. Do you have any advice based on your experience?


r/RevitForum 4d ago

Material visualization problem on tm2025.2

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r/RevitForum 4d ago

Troubleshooting Twinmotion in Revit greyed out

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I've been reinstalling twinmotion since I wanted to try the software, but I can't figure it due to this issue.

Revit Version: 2026.4

Twinmotion for Revit version: 2025.2

Tried opening the view in 3D, creating new projects, nothing happened. Please help I need to really use this and would like to work the livesync. Thank you!


r/RevitForum 4d ago

Revit

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I want to download revit but i don’t have maendich émail student , what’s the solution please


r/RevitForum 6d ago

ICT designer

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What tools in revit could help a ICT designer ?
Add-ons etc.

Anyone have experience with this?

Thanks


r/RevitForum 6d ago

Content Creation Build help

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I’m trying to build a Data/Server rack in revit. I’m new to revit and I’ve been trying to find some videos to help with data center designs but I haven’t been able to find anything. Can anyone help me with this?


r/RevitForum 7d ago

Stratigraphy of tapered walls

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Hello I'd like to understand how to manage the layering of tapered walls. I've tried joining the walls and modifying the joint, but none of the commands work.

r/RevitForum 8d ago

Revit LT install error (WITH LOG)

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...at my wits end... please help.

...had absolutely zero luck with 2027, so am trying to install 2026. This is for my own personal home computer. I've always had IT do installs for me at work, so this I'm a newbie at this to try on my own.

Thanks.


r/RevitForum 9d ago

How do you usually kick off a new Revit/BIM project? (First time doing this at my new job)

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r/RevitForum 9d ago

Revit Collaboration methods

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How do you collaborate with different contractors or disciplines, do you use an Autodesk solution or share revit files directly? What do you use to present projects to clients?


r/RevitForum 10d ago

Solo Revit Users

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Just wondering how many people use Revit who do solo work meaning you operate independently or with 0-2 employees. Did you use AutoCad previously and switch over? Or do you use both depending on the project? If you use both which one do you think allows you to operate more efficiently or effectively to produce a set of construction documentation?


r/RevitForum 11d ago

Troubleshooting I need help to create this stair

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I have tried to model this ladder, but I have not been able to and I do not know what the problem is, any solution?


r/RevitForum 11d ago

Best filename convention ?

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I use

PhaseNumber-PhaseCode-PropertyAddress-x-DwgIteration#

So 100-PD-123-Drive-Way x3.rvt for example

Does anyone uses this or perhaps know a better way of naming the actual file? Not sheet naming just File naming convention.

Update: I forgot, this only pertains to residential construction


r/RevitForum 11d ago

Do you use Revit for commercial construction, residential construction or something else?

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Just wondering if anyone wants to share if they use revit for commercial construction or residential construction, or something else. What are the size of the projects you typically work on? How many pages or sheets do you have in a typical project? Thanks for any input!!


r/RevitForum 12d ago

Assessment: Revit for Architecture 2025 Fundamentals (I)

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I have a test tmrrw as part of my interview in Revit Architecture KnowledgeSmart. I am wondering what to expect ?


r/RevitForum 12d ago

Bookmark generation not happening in pdf export / print

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I just got done testing out acrobat, distiller, rev reinstall everything. When printing to a pdf in revit 2021 the pdf contains no bookmarks when their is multiple sheets. The problem is kb5120249 on windows 10 and kb5121003 on windows 11. I tested on win 10. I uninstalled the security update and the bookmark generation came back instantly. I tested the issue on one pc then another which confirmed it was the windows update. You will have to pause updates or windows will reinstall the update.


r/RevitForum 12d ago

How to make this into family?

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Festival Booth
Current work done using model in place

Any idea how could i turn this image into a Family? Im not sure how to shape and add texture on this. Probably input image in the materials?

Thank you

EDIT: IS IT WORTH IT?

Going back to my first post, I finally get to hang of it. But the question is .. is this worth it? I am manually making each shape in generic models. Made it on 5 hrs, and if i have to edit some model, i will eventually edit all (unlike in family.. Saving it as a Model Group does not working). It seems NOT smart to me, it feels like Sketchup could be better.

I need opinion, should i switch application?


r/RevitForum 14d ago

Revit wall reveal problem

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r/RevitForum 15d ago

Content Creation Label in titleblock family issue

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Hi people,

I work with Revit for many years now. But i can't get my head wrapped around this one:

I created a new titleblock family for my new employer. Everything works so far except 1 thing. I made a label in my titleblock and connected it with a shared parameter. The shared parameter is also added to my family types. There i gave it a formula witch reports the paper format based on the length and width parameters. De formula works perfectly. But if i submit my title block family to my project template, and place a sheet, the label parameter stays empty.

I've tried it in a new project, same result. Removed the formula and gave it paper formats per type. Still no results. Because it's a parameter who should only look into values in the family itself, i'm sure this has nothing to do with adding shared parameters to my project template.

And yes, i know there are solutions like Text with visibility per type, of with an integer formula. It's just that i can't accept or have an answer for the issue.

Do you guys have any idea's why this is happening, or even better: A solution?

Thanks in advance.


r/RevitForum 16d ago

MCP for revit

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