Import project

Last modified by Linus Karlsson on 2025/03/31 16:04

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The first step to do when working with IMPACT is to start a project. This will create a project in the database, with will be used in IMPACT. Later, you'll create the Revit model from the IMPACT project with will ensure that the Revit model and the IMPACT project is connected.

In this course, we'll do this a bit different, but it's important to know how to start a new project from scratch anyway. 

New Project (not included in the course)

  • Open IMPACT Project Manager
  • Create the new project by clicking New (1) and then New... (2)
    new proj1.png
    Figure 1. Create a new project
     
  • A dialog for 'New project' will appear. There are a lot of information in this dialog which can be modified. Most of it is correct from default, and and can be modified afterwards. Three of the settings/configurations cannot be changed after the project is created. Therefore, it's important that these gets correct from the begining. Below is an explanation of the most common settings/configurations. 
    • Common (3) (cannot be modified after the project is created) - decide in which company standard the project should be created in. Usually, only one will exist, but if you work as a consultant you probably have more than one company standard available. 
    • Local (4) (cannot be modified after the project is created) - decide which local level the project should be created in. Usually, only one will exist. 
    • Project (5) (cannot be modified after the project is created) - project number. Needs to be unique and maximum 12 characters long. The allowed characters is A-Z, Å, Ä, Ö, Æ, Ø, 0-9, and _. 
    • Title (6) - The name of the project
    • Description (7) - Can be used to different things, maybe sub title or city of the project
    • Project Color (8) - Used to keep the projects apart in IMPACT, e.g. in IMPACT Production. 
  • End with 'OK' to create the project. 

    new proj 2.png
    Figure 2. Configure the settings. 

Import Project

The first step is to import the course project. It's prepared with some configurations that will make the start of this course a bit easier.

IMPACT 17.1 - Click here to download.

IMPACT 17.2 - Click here to download.

  • Open IMPACT Project Manager
  • Import the project by clicking Import (1) - Project (2) - Select file (3,4,5). The project export can be found here.
    import project 2.png
    Figure 3. Select the project export to be imported.
     
  • Change the project name to your 'BEGIN_RVT_LK' (6) where the two last characters should be your initials. In this way, it is easy to find the project the next time it is going to be opened. Note: There is a yellow triangle. This is a warning which indicates that the project name differ from the original project name. In this case, it's as expected and thus the warning can be ignored. 
  • Check the 'Open the project after it's been imported' (7) and then click on Import (8).
    import project 2.2.png
    Figure 4. Change the project name and check the 'Open project' box.
     
  • There will be a dialog asking to open the log message. This time, click 'No'. In real-life projects it is important to save these logs since the user will get an overview of what happened in the latest update, as well as it will ease eventual troubleshooting. 
    show log dialog.png
    Figure 5. Dialog to open log message. 

The import is now done, and the course project is created. The next step is to take a look at the floors.

Next: Add floors

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