I thought I was done with the ACC model upgrade series. Five posts in, it really felt like I’d covered it all — how the updater works, what breaks, how to check models before upgrading, how to get usable reports out the other side. I’d written about every technical failure point that had ever bitten us, and I was ready…
A few days after the last post, I got handed a model that seemed like it should have worked perfectly. The nested families were already set up as Shared. The IFC export was running. The geometry was coming through. But the asset data? Completely missing. When this happens, it’s easy to jump to conclusions, and there were certainly a few…
I had a question come through that’ll sound familiar if you’ve ever pushed Revit → IFC on a live job: Nested families are carrying asset data in Revit, but that data disappears in the IFC. LOI attributes, classification, IDs.. gone. What’s going on? This comes up more than it should, and when providing advice, far too many people are confidently…
If you’ve been following along with the Revit Cloud Upgrade series, you should now be comfortable with reading the Test Upgrade Report properly, not just scanning it, but understanding what actually blocks an upgrade and what doesn’t. That’s great if the project is small and only has a few models, but it can be very difficult to manage on larger…
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like large language models (LLMs) can act as a double-edged sword in professional settings. They can be powerful “force multipliers” that enhance expert productivity but also risk amplifying the Dunning–Kruger effect among less experienced users. When novices lean on AI-generated outputs without sufficient knowledge to validate them, the combination of AI’s fluent, confident responses and users’…
(click to expand the tl;dr) Every project generates thousands of photos. They’re taken in good faith: someone walks the site, notices something worth recording, pulls out a phone, and clicks. The assumption is that the job is done. It rarely is. Six months later, those images are buried in folders, email threads, or a CDE. The person who took them…
You know that moment when you finally hit Test Upgrade and the HTML drops into your inbox. You open it, scroll a little, and your stomach tightens. Hundreds of warnings. Maybe a few errors. Sometimes a model or two that just… refused to cooperate. It’s incredibly easy to treat that document like a report card. Like Revit just graded your…
Every few months a story does the rounds about a job that gets “optimised” out of existence. A door greeter, a receptionist, an admin. The pitch is always the same: we can automate the visible part of the role, save some money, and nothing important will change. Except something important always changes. Rory Sutherland tells the classic version with the…
Revit 2026 changed how cloud model caches can be configured, and BIM Cache Cleaner wasn’t picking that up properly. In Revit.ini, Revit now allows the cloud cache to be redirected using: On a few machines I tested, [Directories] ProjectPath was empty, but CacheLocation was set. BIM Cache Cleaner was still scanning the default location: So it simply never saw the…
Most upgrade failures don’t happen during the upgrade. They happen six months earlier when everyone was “just trying to get drawings out the door”. By the time you hit Upgrade, the Revit upgrade process is simply showing you the consequences. This is the checklist I run before pushing a single model through the ACC Project Upgrader. It’s boring work, but…