Revision Updater is a Assistant extension for monitoring changes to elements in Autodesk Revit. The tool monitors changes to elements where a specified parameter contains a value from a user-specified list. When a change is detected, the user is prompted to confirm whether they want to make the change, and has the option to cancel.
To use RevisionUpdater, you will need to set up the extension and save it to an assistant file. The extension can be found in the "Revit Extension" task in Assistant. Once the extension is set up, you can configure it to be run when the model is opened using Shortcuts in Assistant.
Revision Updater offers several features to help you manage changes to elements in Revit:
Revision Updater can be used to monitor changes to elements in Revit. This can be useful in several scenarios:
- When you want to monitor changes to elements that is delivered for construction.
- When you want to monitor changes to elements that is already constructed.
You can use * as a wildcard in the status values. This means that any value in the status parameter will be considered locked. For example, if you have a status parameter called "Status" and you want to consider any value in this parameter as locked, you can add * as a status value.
Example:
LOD3* : This will consider any value starting with LOD3 as locked. So LOD300, LOD350, LOD360 will all be considered locked.
If you want to require the user to add a comment when they make a change to a locked element, you can enable the "Require user input" feature. This will display a text box that the user needs to add a comment to in order to save their changes.
It will ask the user to add a comment, this comment will be added to the comment parameter as a new line with the date and time and user initials.