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Exporting from Revit takes a long time or appears to freeze
Exporting from Revit takes a long time or appears to freeze
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Updated over a week ago

You may experience unusually long processing times when exporting a VIM file from Revit. Large VIM files (7GB+) should only take approximately 1 hour to export. If your export is taking a significantly longer time, follow the steps below.

  1. Close Autodesk Revit and any associated Autodesk applications that are not running.

  2. Navigate to your Windows user Temp folder (replace <user> with your user name):
    c:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp

  3. Delete the contents of the Temp directory.
    ​You might be prompted to skip some files that are being used by other applications.

  4. Reboot your computer.

  5. Export the VIM file again.

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