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      Harvesting from Revit files hosted in Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) 

      Learn more about how AVAIL can harvest content from Revit files hosted in Autodesk Construction Cloud

      Important note: Currently, the RVT file must be indexed from the Autodesk Desktop Connector to be accessed via a dynamic path.

      Learn more about Dynamic Paths in this article.

      Steps for Harvesting from files in ACC:

      1. With the Autodesk Desktop Connector installed, ACC cloud-hosted files will appear in Windows Explorer on a drive called Autodesk Docs.
      2. Drag and drop the Revit file directly from Windows Explorer into an AVAIL Channel to index the file in AVAIL. 
      3. In Revit, in the Add-Ins ribbon, launch AVAIL Harvest, and:
        1. Select the channel into which you indexed the Revit file in step 2.
        2. Then select the Revit file you want to Harvest, from the list of files present in that channel.
      4. If the selected Revit model is a cloud or cloud workshared model, then you will see a dialog in which you must “Click Open to open the published version as a detached model.”
      5. Harvest opens the ACC-hosted model.
      6. Now select the AVAIL Channel into which you want the Harvested content to be published as searchable, pre-viewable content for consumption.
      7. Select the Network folder location in Windows Explorer where you want the Harvested content to be stored on your network.

      Important note: If an ACC Revit model is a cloud or cloud work-shared model (or both), Harvest should prompt the user to open the file as detached. Revit files that are not cloud models will not prompt to open as detached.

      Troubleshooting

      If you find the standard steps listed above are not working, try these troubleshooting steps:

      1. Upgrade to the latest Harvest version and try again.  Current release downloads are always here: https://helpcenter.getavail.com/release-notes 
      2. If your Revit file appears in Windows Explorer with a cloud icon next to it, double-click to download the file, then index it into AVAIL.
      3. If this does not work, run the support utility and send those logs *right after* attempting to open the file in Harvest. How to run the Support Utility for AVAIL
      4. Last but not least, another solution would be to detach the model and index the detached model into AVAIL, although this is not a good long-term solution.

      Read more about the many other capabilities of AVAIL Harvest here.