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Understanding Revit release versions and file formats - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Learning Revit 2025
Understanding Revit release versions and file formats
- [Paul] Like most products in the Autodesk portfolio, Revit has a major new release annually, with smaller feature releases being made available to customers on subscription throughout the year. Each major release is enumerated with the year number, like 2024 or 2025, with smaller releases receiving a point designation such as .1 or .2 throughout the year and so on. Each major release of Revit introduces a new file format: new point releases do not. The critical thing to understand here is that once you upgrade to a new annual release, you cannot save the files backwards. In other words, Revit is not backward compatible. Therefore, it is important to know which version of Revit you are using; and further, that anyone you wish to share Revit files with is using the same Revit version as you. It is not advisable to attempt to work with users on different Revit versions. If you do, the person with the more recent Revit version will be able to open the older files just fine, but as soon…
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