However, in the user's defense, at first glance this dialog looks really close to the message you receive when you open a local file for the first time, which was the case.Īnyway, just wanted to save others the aggravation in the event they run into the same issue. In the viewer, when the recent files list appears, you receive the message telling you that this is a viewer and you cannot save, export.If the user reads this message instead of mindlessly closing the warning, they would realize they are in the viewer.There is no indication of which one I started until the Recent Files list appears. When you launch either Revit or the Viewer, the splash screens are identical.But truthfully, I didn't even notice this until I was looking for it. Now, if the user had read the titles in the start menu, they would see that one is a viewer. The user had pinned the viewer icon to his Windows task bar. The icons in the start menu for either application are nearly identical except for the tiny "v" in the bottom right of the icon.Granted, a good portion of this was user error however, I believe Autodesk could make the difference more clear to the end user. I was then able to piece together what had happened. After about half an hour, I finally noticed the difference in the icons. In trying to troubleshoot this and review the licensing information, I kept getting the same message. When they came in this morning, they tried to save and got the message stating they were in a viewer and could not save, export.So now he lost a day of work. I had a user who was working on a project yesterday (thought to be in Revit) they worked all day and left the project open all night (user mistake). Which is Revit without being able to save or use worksharing.There is a serious flaw with this, however.
#REVIT TRIAL INSTALL#
When you install Revit 2012 it also installs a shortcut to Revit Viewer Mode.