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Understanding Revit release versions and file formats

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Understanding Revit release versions and file formats

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- [Instructor] 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 2023 or 2024 with the smaller releases receiving a point designation, such as 2023.1 or .2, and so on. Each major release of Revit introduces a new file format. Point releases do not. So the critical thing to understand here is that once you upgrade to a new release of Revit that's a new major annual release you cannot save the files backward. In other words, Revit is not backward compatible. Therefore, it is very important that you know which version of Revit you are using. And further that anyone you wish to share your Revit files with is using at least the same version or later as you. It is not advisable to attempt to work with users on different Revit versions.…

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