Autodesk Programs & Liquidware ProfileUnity/FlexApp
Yesterday at the Indianapolis CUGC meeting, Liquidware presented on their ProfileUnity solution. Questions came up about Autodesk software in FlexApp and brought up an ongoing conversation about how to make this work both in FlexApp and with Portability/ProfileDisk. Here are the issues I have encountered and how to resolve them or work around them. Multiple Year Versions of the Same Product - FlexApp As an architectural design firm, we utilize Autodesk Revit as our primary design software. The model files from Revit are essentially single file databases which undergo a schema update when upgrading to newer versions. Autodesk has decided against spending time to develop a solution for saving back to older versions, so once a file is upgraded it can no longer be opened in an older version. This means we tend to keep a couple different versions of Revit installed to minimize the need to upgrade files mid project and to work with consultants that may not be on the latest version.