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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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- [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 a number for the year, like 2026, or 2025, and so on. Smaller releases get point designations throughout the year to indicate the intermediate releases. Each major release of Revit introduces a new file format, point releases do not. Now, the critical thing to understand here is that once you upgrade to a new annual release, you cannot save files backwards. In other words, Revit is not backward compatible. Therefore, it is important to know which version of Revit you're 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 version of Revit will be able to open all the older files just…

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