Known Issues - Legacy Versions

Known incompatibilities, issues, problems

Planar Face calculation points error in Revit 2018
Issue Autodesk made a breaking, albeit vaguely documented, change in the Revit 2018 API that causes legacy applications to throw an exception when the u...
Tue, 16 May, 2017 at 1:57 PM
Bluebeam Revu 2017 Incompatibility
 Issue UPDATE:  Bluebeam has released a patch that resolves this issue (release notes, FAQ). Bluebeam Revu 2017 is incompatible with ElumTools (all ...
Thu, 31 May, 2018 at 3:16 PM
ElumTools 7-Zip DLL conflict.
Issue When ElumTools is run along side another Revit Addin that uses the 7-Zip library, conflicts can occur. The main problem.  ElumTools throws an err...
Fri, 14 Dec, 2018 at 9:49 AM
Correcting ElumTools Display Issues with High Resolution Monitors
---Update : February 8th, 2021 ---   Display issues with 4k and other high resolution monitors were fixed in versions 2019.14, 2020.8, and 2021.5 of Elum...
Mon, 8 Feb, 2021 at 9:27 AM
Calculate Boundary commands do not detect host model elements.
Background Autodesk introduced a bug in Revit 2017 which can cause the project Phase information to become corrupted when using the Wire command.  Thi...
Wed, 28 Nov, 2018 at 11:07 AM
Why are items from the wrong phase (e.g. demoed elements) being included in the calculation?
------Update:  This issue has been fixed in version 2021.2, 2020.5 and 2019.11.----------- ElumTools does not have access to linked model Phase Mapping...
Mon, 4 May, 2020 at 9:54 AM
Antivirus software can affect the activation of the program
Issue: The Lai.LicenseManager.exe file was flagged as a false positive in the Malware Database and it triggers antivirus software to quarantine it. This...
Wed, 29 Mar, 2017 at 4:17 PM
ElumTools 2015.11, 2016.8, 2017.4 Commands using 3D graphics fail on system with .NET 4.5
Issue When you try running an ElumTools command that utilizes 3D graphics, you get an error message that the DLL cannot be loaded.  Solution  Th...
Thu, 6 Apr, 2017 at 4:23 PM
JSON.Net Incompatibility
FIXED in ElumTools 2015.11, 2016.8, 2017.4 and later. ElumTools uses a popular 3rd party library called JSON.Net.  In previous versions of ElumTools, th...
Tue, 21 Feb, 2017 at 9:22 AM
ElumTools Error from cutGCurveWithGeometry
Error Message  Could not complete ElumTools command:  CalculateSpaceCommand Exception: Autodesk.Revit.Exceptions.InternalException: Error from cutG...
Wed, 16 Sep, 2020 at 12:49 PM