topic Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside in ArcGIS Pro Questions

ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

AlessandroValra — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:50:55 GMT

The new addition of reading Revit (.rvt) files in ArcGIS Pro was exactly what many people were waiting for.

I started importing some rvt files and they just look amazing inside the GIS.

However, as the number of imported rvt incresases, as soon as I close and try to reopen the same project it refuses to open, simply showing the error window with the option to send the report (which I did).

Has anybody experienced such issue with Revit files and ArcGIS Pro 2.2?

I tried with two different machiens and the problem is present in both.

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 20:42:23 GMT

Perhaps a resource issue on your computer. How did your computer fair on the

ArcGIS Pro 2.2 system requirements—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop

Check your computer's ability to run ArcGIS Pro 2.2

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

AlessandroValra — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 07:36:09 GMT

Dan Patterson‌ Thanks for the feedback.

The computer should be ok, I attach the printshot of its specs.

Although the graphic card specs is not present, it should be powerful as it runs many 3d rendering softwares without problems.

However, I'll give the "Can You Run It?" tool a try and will come back to confirm.

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

DA_BIM-GIS — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 18:48:04 GMT

Hello Alessandro,

The Revit files are store in memory, so you could be running out of memory. In your case how many Revit files are you trying to read (number of files and size of files)?

Best regards,

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:53:22 GMT

Sounds like a memory monitor should be shown on the status bar to prevent overstuffing.

Under-nourished computers are popping up all over the place given the 'minimum' and 'recommended' memory and gpu specs are little on the optimistic side.

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

AlessandroValra — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 07:57:14 GMT

David Alvarez
In your case how many Revit files are you trying to read (number of files and size of files)?

Quite a lot actually (let's say ten, it might be a bit more or less). And also, depending on the detail of those revit models, I guess they could consume more the more detailed they are.

So, would you reccomend to convert them to featureclass? Is it possible to do it with standard tools or should I use the Data Interoperability extension?

Dan Patterson
Sounds like a memory monitor should be shown on the status bar to prevent overstuffing.

I think the major problem here is that my computer can handle those in-memory files flawlessly: I can navigate through my scene and see my revit models smoothly.

However, the REAL problem is that as long as I close the project and try to reopen it, it crashes and I lose all the possibility to do anything with it. I just need to redo all the import hoping not to hit the (unknown) memory limit.

Why is this happening only at opening?

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

LR — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:22:42 GMT

As far as I can tell, the Revit files are "loaded" in the same way as DWGs are "loaded": Pro converts the geometry to MP and stores those in a "virtual GDB". So you might be better off saving them to a real GDB once loaded.

I had the same experience more or less. Cute example Revit-files load easily, but on a real-life model, warts and all, Pro will spend all day trying to get it in the scene. Don't toss your FME workbenches yet, if ever .

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

AlessandroValra — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:31:56 GMT

So you might be better off saving them to a real GDB once loaded.

How would you do that? I tried (randomly) to:

right click on a revit file in the catalog pane
right click on an empty File GDB -> Paste Special
Crash...

Ahhah, don't know why, but I was pretty sure this would have happened. Why was the Paste Special option even there??? The crash was instant and no windows with error report showed up. I just lost (again) all my work...

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

AlessandroValra — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:50:47 GMT

Ok, it's the Copy Features—Data Management toolbox | ArcGIS Desktop.

Just found out.

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

LR — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:48:59 GMT

The classic way.. right-click on the layer in the contents pane, Data > Export Features. Once saved you might want to consider splitting the layer by attribute to make the model more manageable. You probably won't need toilet models for your GIS analysis .

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

DA_BIM-GIS — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:28:59 GMT

If you are using the data for visualization\analysis I suggest you convert the Exterior Shell feature class elements. This feature class already contains only the exterior elements, so no query is necessary before convert it to a feature class.

Link below has additional information on how the Revit file is organize.

How is Revit Data organized in ArcGIS Pro?—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

AlessandroValra — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:28:28 GMT

Just one hint: after conversion, the feature class looses the original symbology of the Revit file. Just import it inside the feature class using the Symbology pane and everything will look just as the revit model.

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

DA_BIM-GIS — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:26:49 GMT

Alessandro,

A script to export from Revit to FGDB is coming soon.

Best regards,

David

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

halaalmomani1 — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 12:15:43 GMT

Can i have a help

I'm new user on gispro2.2

I have revit model ; i dont know how to show it on the map i connect the folder that have the revit when i drag it to the map the gis goes out and told me to send report what is the steps must i do to import the model on the gis pro

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

KenHartling — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:24:16 GMT

Alessandro,

Have you reported this to your support contact? If you submit a support case we'll be able to investigate and if necessary put in a fix.

Thanks. Ken

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

KenHartling — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:25:19 GMT

Have you reported this to your support contact? Please do, we'd like to see the issue so we can investigate.

Thx. Ken

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

DA_BIM-GIS — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:14:42 GMT

Hello Hala,

Without looking at the file these are my assumptions for your issue.

The file could be a RVT 2019 ArcGIS Pro 2.3.2 would read RVT 2019
There is a family that is corrupt.

Best regards,

David

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

halaalmomani1 — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:01:34 GMT

Hello David

Thank you so much for your reply , your assumption is correct i was using revit 2019 with gispro2.2 and i solved the problem.

Re: ArcGIS Pro refuses to open aprx with many Revit files inside

AlessandroValra — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:44:10 GMT

Is this something that is going to be implemented anytime soon? A year has passed since the answer and so far i could not find any export from Revit to FGDB tool yet.