Modify Fabrication Configuration Path in Revit Models?

[shilgartner]

Is there a way to modify or insert the Configuration Path in a Revit model? I am working with a model that can no longer find its Configuration and when I run a Dynamo script, I see that the Config Path is empty. I am hoping I can find a way to insert this information instead of starting over.

[patryduf]

Did the Configuration move from the original location when it was last loaded correctly?
I suppose that if you are looking for the path in Dynamo it's because you don't know where it was at the time?
If you know where it is now, maybe you can force the new path in the registry?

[shilgartner]

It is still located in the same place. I have also checked the GUID. The Configuration path is just blank in Revit. So even though the Configuration is still located in the same place, Revit does not know where that place is. All of our other Revit models have the path in Revit and are OK, this one just got corrupt somehow.

[Darren Young]

5-years old so not sure the libraries still work. But you'll get the idea and likely be able to piece a functional version together yourself if the download on my site doesn't work.

https://www.darrenjyoung.com/2020/02/17/revit-cant-see-fabrication-configuration/

[shilgartner]

I used that Dynamo script to reveal the fact that the Configuration path was missing. I have handled the GUID issue before successfully. Since the Configuration path is still in the Revit model it will update the GUID. Since the Configuration path is not in the Revit model I am working with, it does not know where to look to do anything with it. Please see the images in the post above that show a comparison of the results from the Dynamo script. One side shows the Configuration path in a Revit model and the other shows that same field blank in another. The blank field is the situation I am dealing with here.

[rjdonahue]

Does the dynamo script report the GUID?

[patryduf]

Looks like it does for other projects, but not this particular one.

[Darren Young]

I used that Dynamo script to reveal the fact that the Configuration path was missing. I have handled the GUID issue before successfully. Since the Configuration path is still in the Revit model it will update the GUID. Since the Configuration path is not in the Revit model I am working with, it does not know where to look to do anything with it. Please see the images in the post above that show a comparison of the results from the Dynamo script. One side shows the Configuration path in a Revit model and the other shows that same field blank in another. The blank field is the situation I am dealing with here.

Been a while so anything's possible over time and the limited scenarios I've encountered so take that disclaimer for what it's worth but...

To get a Revit model to see a Config when it's lost it, it needs 2 things...

1) A GUID
2) Value Config Name

You shouldn't need the path. The "Path" comes from the Registry entries that define the Configs for the version of products you're using. That "Registry Path" points to MAP.INI which then lists all the other paths a config needs.

Use Dynamo to set both the GUID and Config Name and I think you'll be ok.

[shilgartner]

Does the dynamo script report the GUID?

Yes

[shilgartner]

Looks like it does for other projects, but not this particular one.

It does show the GUID just no path for the Configuration.

[shilgartner]

I used that Dynamo script to reveal the fact that the Configuration path was missing. I have handled the GUID issue before successfully. Since the Configuration path is still in the Revit model it will update the GUID. Since the Configuration path is not in the Revit model I am working with, it does not know where to look to do anything with it. Please see the images in the post above that show a comparison of the results from the Dynamo script. One side shows the Configuration path in a Revit model and the other shows that same field blank in another. The blank field is the situation I am dealing with here.

Been a while so anything's possible over time and the limited scenarios I've encountered so take that disclaimer for what it's worth but...

To get a Revit model to see a Config when it's lost it, it needs 2 things...

1) A GUID
2) Value Config Name

You shouldn't need the path. The "Path" comes from the Registry entries that define the Configs for the version of products you're using. That "Registry Path" points to MAP.INI which then lists all the other paths a config needs.

Use Dynamo to set both the GUID and Config Name and I think you'll be ok.

The "Get Fabrication Configuration Info" node shows both the GUID and the Configuration name but the path is empty. The path field is filled out in every other model I have reviewed. I have checked the Registry and it shows the path and name of the Profile properly but the model still doesn't seem to pick it up.

[Choop]

Has anyone figured this out we are having the same problem?