Here’s a prototype of a new tool to track data about your Revit files, who opens them, how long the open takes, if they need to be upgraded, and more. Please leave a comment if you like this or have ideas about how to make it better.
Data Collected:
| Open Started | Open Completed | Elapsed (HH:MM:SS) | User | File Name | File Size (MB) | Central File | File Last Saved Version | Saved in Current Version | Revit Version Name | Revit Version # | Revit Build # |
Sample Data:
Open times are rounded down to the nearest second.
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Looks great Harry. I’d suggest adding the computer name also to track which computers are slower opening than others.
Local available storage would be helpful as well.
Load times may also be highly dependent on which worksets a user decides to open.
Good point. The API can be used to get a list of open worksets. Would it be helpful to add to this spreadsheet the # of open user worksets, names of all open user worksets, # of closed worksets, or something else?
Hi Harry, looks great. Very useful. As per Troy’s comment, computer name would be valuable too.
Looks awesome. Is there any way to track how long Revit is the active window? That way we would know how much users are actually in the program working versus just having the file open.
Can you log the warnings that were present on open?
Not easily. There is no API access to warnings. You could look at these posts to see what this might entail. https://boostyourbim.wordpress.com/?s=warnings
This add-in will be very useful. Has this been made available for download at this time?
Not yet
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Another questions, will it work with Revit server? I’m assuming (hoping) yes…
Yes