topic Re: Change vs. revisions in Project data & BIM

Change vs. revisions

David Bearss — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:32:31 GMT

Am trying to get up to speed with the new change manager. However, am in head spin with the change versus revisions nomenclature. Have been watching the tutorials and reading reference guide and seem to be missing the basic premise of revisions versus changes. Is there a simple explanation somewhere?

Re: Change vs. revisions

Erich — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 03:47:16 GMT

Think of a revision as an issue. So each revision can have multiple changes but each change only belongs to one revision.

Not the way I used to do it but it works fairly well once you get used to it. The videos help too.

Re: Change vs. revisions

David Bearss — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 05:30:38 GMT

Got it, thanks. Spent some time tonight fiddling with a project and am starting to get it. Just trying to figure out how to get one change per line.

Re: Change vs. revisions

DGSketcher — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:28:00 GMT

I saved a copy of a working file and just abused the options until I got a feel for how it should work. Daunting to start with but quite flexible and effective once you appreciate how it works.

I would be careful of mixing up revision and issues, they are very different things in the change manager. An issue is typically a collection of layouts containing revisions although you could reissue the full drawing set. A revision is an incremental marker added to a single layout on which there has been at least one change. The change numbers are likely to be non-consecutive on a layout depending on what you noted as a change.

If you wish to consolidate your change notes you can just select a view or other object on the layout and note the changes under a single entry.

Re: Change vs. revisions

David Bearss — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:57:47 GMT

I was struggling to get an understanding and fiddling while in a v11 project opened with v18. Was watching video tutorials and I realized that the settings window was different than what was in the tutorials. I did what you did and opened a blank template and discovered that the revision history object was corrupted. Copied and pasted from template file and they loaded correctly. Definitely issues migrating from v11.