From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Using eTransmit to upgrade files

Using eTransmit to upgrade files

- Previously in this series I've looked at different ways to upgrade a collection of files from a previous release to the current release, and this week I want to talk about using the built in etransmit tool for that purpose. So the etransmit tool can be used to share a model with outside recipients but it also has a function that allows you to upgrade not only one file but a whole collection of files if you wish. So I've provided a zip file with just some sample files in there, just make sure you've unzipped that file before you begin, because you can't preform etransmit on a zipped collection of files they have to be unzipped, so this is the folder right here, where I've just called it files to upgrade, and that's just an unzipped collection of revit files. You can use any folder full of revit files for this exercise though. All right the next step is when you open up revit you need to make sure that you don't have a model loaded, if you have a project file open and you try and run…

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