In this article, which will be updated continuously, common warnings which appear when starting Revit with Naviate Bimfire and solutions will be documented.
- System.AggregateException
This will appear when both Bimfire Tools (BFT) and Naviate Bimfire are installed on the computer.- First check installed apps on the computer:
- If Bimfire Tools (BFT) doesn't exist in the installed app, make sure that it was uninstalled successfully. Go to
- C:\Program Files\BIMFIRE
- C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\202X
- Start by cut/paste them from the paths to i.e. the desktop, restart Revit and check if it works. If it does, delete the files / folders from the desktop.
- First check installed apps on the computer:
- System.UnauthorizedAccessException
This can appear if the user is not an admin on their computer. In the 2024.3.1 / 2023.3.1 releases there was a bug that a .json file required admin access to change an URL.
- Either run Revit as an administrator:
- Go to "C:\ProgramData\Symetri\Naviate\Revit 2023\Shared\Ini" and right click on URLs.json
- Show more properties, and properties. Edit the permission on the user (Admin must do it).
- Restart Revit, this has to be done once and it will work perfectly fine after.
- Either run Revit as an administrator: