A little over a week ago we've released an update to the Revit working libraries, adding an autosave service based on the R AutoSave plugin from Bim2B. After the release, after talking to users, we realized that it was a lot of unnecessary features and simply removed them all, leaving only the time-based saving.

But we did it for a reason! After this update in our Telegram and other groups, we finally got feedback from users, understanding what they really expect from the service. There were not too many problems we solved and will describe below:

Firstly - we returned the backup folder to the settings. But with an obvious difference - the folder can be set or not. This difference affects the operation of the following functions.

Second - since the service saves the file at every interval, a situation may arise when the user has opened the file but didn't need to save it. For example, when he didn't want to save the changes and decided to close the file without saving. But since the autosave service was enabled, the file managed to be saved. Therefore, we have added the creation of a file storing the state of the project at the moment of opening (with the extension os$ - open state). Accordingly, if you want to roll back to this state, just change the extension of this file to the extension of the project file (.rvt, .rfa or .rte). If the backup folder is specified, the file will be created there, if not - next to the source file.

Third - a feature that shouldn't really apply to the service, but users have asked for - moving backups. When saving, Revit creates backups (like project_name.nnnn.rvt) next to the file. The number of backups cannot be less than zero. That is a minimum of one backup. Now, if you specify a folder to store backups in the service settings and enable the "Move backups" option, backups will be moved to the specified folder. At that the number of backups you specify in the service settings will be saved, not the number specified in the project settings.

Fourth, we added some extra error-catching features for auto-save, so you won't get an error window popping up in Revit. We could not reproduce such cases, though, so we are waiting for feedback from users.

If you have any other suggestions, write to us!

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Since recently, authorization through the Google account in ModPlus ceased to work. And the authorization pages of other social networks just looked clumsy. The problem was technical (let's not go into details) and there was nothing we could do about it. In the meantime, people kept texting us, saying that they couldn't login to their account using their Google account.

We spent a lot of time thinking about how to fix the problem and finally came up with a solution! The solution is quite complex, but the authorization process is still simple: now in the Personal Account when you click on "Authorize" will not open a box, but the authorization page in the browser. After successful authorization you will see a message that the page can be closed. Everything is simple!

But just in case, we left the old authorization option in the box, but removed the social authorization buttons from it. Special message you'll see in Personal Account

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The autosave service presented a couple of days ago was developed based on the R AutoSave plugin from Bim2B. After publishing the service and discussing it with our users, we concluded that most of the features were unnecessary! Revit itself saves backups, and creating a temporary file did not really do anything.

So today we updated the working libraries of Revit and removed the backups and the temporary file from the autosave service.

Although now our service is completely different from the Bim2B plugin, we decided to leave the note that this plugin was used, because that was originally the case. And also, because Bim2B are our friends!

Multiple times users have written to us asking us to make an autosave plugin. We hadn't planned to do so, since such plugins are available in the AppStore. But time passed, and we changed our minds for several reasons: one of the existing plugins is not updated (although you can make it work on new versions of Revit, but not everyone knows how), another of the existing plugins is paid, and just we wanted to make ModPlus even more useful!

We did not make a separate plugin, but made a built-in service, similar to the Coloring tabs. Which means that the service is free and is available in the settings window immediately when you install ModPlus.

The service is based on the R AutoSave plugin by Bim2B (by Dmitry Talalaev)

To make the service as clear as possible without any help, we added a description of its work directly in the settings window:

Update the Revit working libraries, enable the Autosave service and enjoy the work!

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